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authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>2013-09-09 18:33:54 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-09-26 11:03:29 +0200
commit19872d20c890073c5207d9e02bb8f14d451a11eb (patch)
tree7f83152f8b341304cf4134fe85ab50d349d15ab1 /include/linux/miscdevice.h
parent84fca9f38c5d646e95cdeef70e41cf15db549b95 (diff)
HID: uhid: allocate static minor
udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This feature was introduced by: commit 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881 Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Date: Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200 driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use. Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good to go. Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 09c2300ddb37..cb358355ef43 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#define MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR 236
#define LOOP_CTRL_MINOR 237
#define VHOST_NET_MINOR 238
+#define UHID_MINOR 239
#define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR 255
struct device;