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authorThomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>2008-02-04 23:53:18 -0800
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2008-02-11 10:20:53 -0600
commit90a95af85f22c82f87e5fb714bac7ee06673b0ff (patch)
tree4211b482478654df9d33a1d1c44ceef2d59ba010 /drivers
parent7d5d408c77cee95d1380511de46b7a4c8dc2211d (diff)
[SCSI] MegaRAID driver management char device moved to misc
The MegaRAID driver's common management module (megaraid_mm.c) creates a char device used by the management tool "megarc" from LSI Logic (and possibly other management tools). In 2.6 with udev, this device doesn't get created because it is not registered in sysfs. I first fixed this by registering a class "megaraid_mm", but realized that this should probably be moved to misc devices, instead of taking up a char major. This is because only 1 device is used, even if there are multiple adapters - the minor is never used (the adapter info is in the ioctl block sent to the driver, not detected based on the minor number as one might think). So it is a complete waste to have an entire major taken by this. So it now uses a misc device which I named "megadev0" (the name that megarc expects), and has a dynamic minor (previoulsy a dynamic major was used). I have tested this on my own system with the megarc tool, and it works just as fine as before (only now the device gets created correctly by udev). Acked-by: "Patro, Sumant" <Sumant.Patro@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c20
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h1
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
index b6587a6d848..0ad215e27b8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_register_adp);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_unregister_adp);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_adapter_app_handle);
-static int majorno;
static uint32_t drvr_ver = 0x02200207;
static int adapters_count_g;
@@ -76,6 +75,12 @@ static const struct file_operations lsi_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
+static struct miscdevice megaraid_mm_dev = {
+ .minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
+ .name = "megadev0",
+ .fops = &lsi_fops,
+};
+
/**
* mraid_mm_open - open routine for char node interface
* @inode : unused
@@ -1184,15 +1189,16 @@ mraid_mm_teardown_dma_pools(mraid_mmadp_t *adp)
static int __init
mraid_mm_init(void)
{
+ int err;
+
// Announce the driver version
con_log(CL_ANN, (KERN_INFO "megaraid cmm: %s %s\n",
LSI_COMMON_MOD_VERSION, LSI_COMMON_MOD_EXT_VERSION));
- majorno = register_chrdev(0, "megadev", &lsi_fops);
-
- if (majorno < 0) {
- con_log(CL_ANN, ("megaraid cmm: cannot get major\n"));
- return majorno;
+ err = misc_register(&megaraid_mm_dev);
+ if (err < 0) {
+ con_log(CL_ANN, ("megaraid cmm: cannot register misc device\n"));
+ return err;
}
init_waitqueue_head(&wait_q);
@@ -1230,7 +1236,7 @@ mraid_mm_exit(void)
{
con_log(CL_DLEVEL1 , ("exiting common mod\n"));
- unregister_chrdev(majorno, "megadev");
+ misc_deregister(&megaraid_mm_dev);
}
module_init(mraid_mm_init);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
index c8762b2b8ed..55b425c0a65 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include "mbox_defs.h"
#include "megaraid_ioctl.h"