Message-ID: <20060816154204.28656.qmail@lwn.net>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev() 
From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:03:19 +0200."
             <200608160903.25145.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> 
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:42:04 -0600
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Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> wrote:

> > Might this, instead, be an opportunity to get rid of the internal
> > register_chrdev() and unregister_chrdev() calls in favor of the cdev
> > interface?
> 
> In this case I would suggest to add documentation to this functions first to 
> get people the chance to actually know how to use them.

Good point.  My article (http://lwn.net/Articles/49684/) has been
somewhat overtaken by time, though I do think that the discussion in
LDD3 is still applicable.  I'll see what I can do about that side of
things.

jon
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