On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adding the devname:vhci alias and thus adding a static /dev/vhci device node
> only works when assigning a fixed major/minor number. However, the code
> currently uses a dynamically assigned minor number. It is therefore impossible
> to create a static device and to autoload the module when accessing it.
>
> Reverting this fixes the kmod error message
> depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major and minor information. Ignoring.
>
> This reverts commit bfacbb9aec029b3200053d84c8cd5d7575f2d4a5.
We've had several reports of this in Fedora as well. I hadn't gotten
around to digging into it yet, so thanks for bringing this up Thomas.
josh
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> index 1ef6990..cf05d70 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> @@ -384,4 +384,3 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Bluetooth virtual HCI driver ver " VERSION);
> MODULE_VERSION(VERSION);
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> -MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vhci");
> --
> 1.9.0
>
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