From 8dcf94bcff5bf3b54380ae2a17b034fb3b9d58e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Williamson Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:17:11 -0700 Subject: misc: Reserve minor for VFIO VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP). This works, but it doesn't support auto loading. For instance when libvirt checks for VFIO support it looks for /dev/vfio/vfio, which currently doesn't exist unless the vfio module is loaded. By converting the control device to a misc driver and reserving a static minor, we can enable auto loading. Reserving the minor is a prerequist to that conversion. Minor 196 is unused by anything currently in the kernel. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/miscdevice.h') diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h index f7eaf2d60083..3737f7218f51 100644 --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #define STORE_QUEUE_MINOR 155 #define I2O_MINOR 166 #define MICROCODE_MINOR 184 +#define VFIO_MINOR 196 #define TUN_MINOR 200 #define CUSE_MINOR 203 #define MWAVE_MINOR 219 /* ACP/Mwave Modem */ -- cgit