Hi, On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Sri Ram K Vemulpali<vsriramksh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Hi all,>> I am writing a kernel module. Where in the module, major number is> allocated on fly (alloc_chrdev_region). And using major number from> /proc/devices I create a device node in /dev (mknod). To see what happens if> I create device node with major number first and then asking the kernel to> create same major number on fly when I use insmod(kernel is picking the> major number on fly what I used for device node). When I type insmod the> whole kernel is freezing.No Oops?Could you please send some code to check?Do you think the kernel should avoid such> situation gracefully. Any comments would be helpful. Thank you.>>> Sri.>>>> thanks, Marek -- as simple as primitive as possible----------------------------------------------Marek Beliško - open-nandraRuská Nová Ves 21908005 PrešovSlovakiahttp://open-nandra.com��.n��������+%����w�j)p���{.n����z�ޖw�n'���q���b�������v��m�����Y�����
