On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:19:04 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The more general problem of > > > > register_chrdev > > open > > do something > > error > > unload > > whoops > > > > definitely needs looking at however. > > absolutely > > we used to have the same issue with networking devices, > and there it ended up with a split "allocate" and "register" Char devs are really the same way - request_chrdev_region() and cdev_add(). I've thought for a while that register_chrdev() should be seen as a legacy interface and removed - LDD3 was written from that point of view. But that takes work, and nobody's found the issue urgent enough to put time into... jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
