On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:00:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2019-12-29 18:18:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit 8670b2b8b029a6650d133486be9d2ace146fd29a ] > > > > udev has a feature of creating /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds > > a devnode:<node> modalias. This allows for auto-loading of modules that > > provide the node. This requires to use a statically allocated minor > > number for misc character devices. > > > > However, rfkill uses dynamic minor numbers and prevents auto-loading > > of the module. So allocate the next static misc minor number and use > > it for rfkill. > > Is this good idea for stable? Yes. > I don't see this major/minor allocated in devices.txt in > mainline. Should something like this be added? > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> Good idea, can you resend this as a "real" patch so that I can apply it? thanks, greg k-h
