On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:06:53AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > I tracked down a regression in PCMCIA (and other software) to a > new bogus register_chrdev() behavior that got merged last month; > a patch from Matt Mackall that misbehaves.
Thanks and sorry about that. I actually asked Linus to revert it right after Andrew pushed it to him, but I hadn't actually seen a problem report so I didn't pursue it. > This patch just reverts Matt's, restoring the previous behavior > but at the cost of about a Kbyte of static memory on 32bit CPUs. > Someday a Real Fix(tm) would be good. I've got a Real Fix (a refactor of block and chardev name registration), will need to wait for .12. > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
