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From:   Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:33:42 +0800
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Subject: Question about dynamic minor number of misc device
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi Maintainers,

I see there are 64 free slots(0-63) used for misc devices with dynamic
minor number. But PSMOUSE_MINOR(1) overlaps with that dynamic range.

So if the dynamic minor number exhaust, psaux driver will fail with
"could not register psaux device, error: -16", is this expected?
Should we preserve a slot for psaux and serio_raw which use static
minor number PSMOUSE_MINOR?

Thanks
Zhenzhong