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| author | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> | 2013-09-09 20:33:54 +0400 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2013-09-26 13:03:29 +0400 |
| commit | 19872d20c890073c5207d9e02bb8f14d451a11eb (patch) | |
| tree | 7f83152f8b341304cf4134fe85ab50d349d15ab1 /drivers/hid | |
| parent | 84fca9f38c5d646e95cdeef70e41cf15db549b95 (diff) | |
| download | linux-19872d20c890073c5207d9e02bb8f14d451a11eb.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hid/uhid.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c index 5bf2fb785844..93b00d76374c 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c +++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ static const struct file_operations uhid_fops = { static struct miscdevice uhid_misc = { .fops = &uhid_fops, - .minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR, + .minor = UHID_MINOR, .name = UHID_NAME, }; @@ -634,4 +634,5 @@ module_exit(uhid_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem"); +MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UHID_MINOR); MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UHID_NAME); |