On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 05:02:08PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org
[ Upstream commit 8670b2b8b029a6650d133486be9d2ace146fd29a ]
udev has a feature of creating /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. This allows for auto-loading of modules that provide the node. This requires to use a statically allocated minor number for misc character devices.
However, rfkill uses dynamic minor numbers and prevents auto-loading of the module. So allocate the next static misc minor number and use it for rfkill.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024174042.19851-1-marcel@holtmann.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + net/rfkill/core.c | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
This is not needed in older kernels, please do not backport it unless the networking developers _REALLY_ think it is necessary.
thanks,
greg k-h