Hi Robert, On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (i'm sure i can eventually track this down, but maybe someone can > save me the time.) ...snip... > fair enough. now, however, i'd like to find (again, on my ubuntu > 10.04 system) an example driver that uses dynamic minor number > allocation and that's *not* built into the kernel so i can use that as > a demo of what happens when one loads such a driver. and, so far, i > haven't found an example like that yet -- every driver that does that > is, on this system, configured to be built into the kernel. > > anyone know of such an example? i briefly grep'ped thru drivers/ > for the macro MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but every example i saw was, on this > system, configured to be built into the kernel. I'm just in the process of upgrading to 10.04, so I don't have a definitive answer, but you could try the following cd /lib/modules/2.6.whatever grep -r misc_register * That seems to come up with quite a few potential candidates. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
