perhaps confused about operation of alloc_chrdev_region()

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 15:44:29 EDT 2011


Hi Robert,

> static int __init bsr_init(void)
> {
>        struct device_node *np;
>        dev_t bsr_dev = MKDEV(bsr_major, 0);   <--- ????????

You are right, this seems to be completely useless.

Go on make a patch, compile and send it.

thanks,
Daniel.



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