Ack: [PATCH Trusty SRU] Bluetooth: allocate static minor for vhci

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Fri May 9 03:16:28 UTC 2014


This seems to be fairly straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>

On 05/08/2014 06:04 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317336
> 
> Commit bfacbb9 (Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI
> driver) added the module alias to hci_vhci module so it's possible to
> create the /dev/vhci node. However creating an alias without
> specifying the minor doesn't allow us to create the node ahead,
> triggerring module auto-load when it's first accessed.
> 
> Starting with depmod from kmod 16 we started to warn if there's a
> devname alias without specifying the major and minor.
> 
> Let's do the same done for uhid, kvm, fuse and others, specifying a
> fixed minor. In systems with systemd as the init the following will
> happen: on early boot systemd will call "kmod static-nodes" to read
> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When
> first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel at holtmann.org>
> (cherry picked from commit b075dd40c95d11c2c8690f6c4d6232fc0d9e7f56)
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devices.txt    |    1 +
>  drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c |    3 ++-
>  include/linux/miscdevice.h   |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
> index 80b7241..fce9398 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
> @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
>  		133 = /dev/exttrp	External device trap
>  		134 = /dev/apm_bios	Advanced Power Management BIOS
>  		135 = /dev/rtc		Real Time Clock
> +		137 = /dev/vhci		Bluetooth virtual HCI driver
>  		139 = /dev/openprom	SPARC OpenBoot PROM
>  		140 = /dev/relay8	Berkshire Products Octal relay card
>  		141 = /dev/relay16	Berkshire Products ISO-16 relay card
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> index 7b16738..59095e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static const struct file_operations vhci_fops = {
>  static struct miscdevice vhci_miscdev= {
>  	.name	= "vhci",
>  	.fops	= &vhci_fops,
> -	.minor	= MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
> +	.minor	= VHCI_MINOR,
>  };
>  
>  static int __init vhci_init(void)
> @@ -378,3 +378,4 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Bluetooth virtual HCI driver ver " VERSION);
>  MODULE_VERSION(VERSION);
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vhci");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(VHCI_MINOR);
> diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> index f7eaf2d..e5db611 100644
> --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>  #define TEMP_MINOR		131	/* Temperature Sensor */
>  #define RTC_MINOR		135
>  #define EFI_RTC_MINOR		136	/* EFI Time services */
> +#define VHCI_MINOR		137
>  #define SUN_OPENPROM_MINOR	139
>  #define DMAPI_MINOR		140	/* DMAPI */
>  #define NVRAM_MINOR		144
> 




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