perhaps confused about operation of alloc_chrdev_region()

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Daniel Baluta wrote:

> 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.

  well, i won't *compile* it since it's strictly for powerpc, but i'll
just submit the patch to the ppc list and let them make the decision.
i just wanted to verify that i wasn't hopelessly confused.

rday

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