Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

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On 12/06/17 10:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which
> would be really good for test systems.  I thought someone proposed
> patches for that a long time ago, but I can't find them anymore.  That
> would be the simplest solution here.

Would people not complain about that? I would not be surprised if some
crazy application is using hard coded major numbers in userspace. So
such a change could potentially break userspace...

Logan
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