rfkill: allocate static minor
authorMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:40:42 +0000 (19:40 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:35:38 +0000 (16:35 +0100)
[ 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
net/rfkill/core.c

index 3247a3d..b06b757 100644 (file)
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #define UHID_MINOR             239
 #define USERIO_MINOR           240
 #define VHOST_VSOCK_MINOR      241
+#define RFKILL_MINOR           242
 #define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR     255
 
 struct device;
index 1355f5c..7fbc831 100644 (file)
@@ -1328,10 +1328,12 @@ static const struct file_operations rfkill_fops = {
        .llseek         = no_llseek,
 };
 
+#define RFKILL_NAME "rfkill"
+
 static struct miscdevice rfkill_miscdev = {
-       .name   = "rfkill",
        .fops   = &rfkill_fops,
-       .minor  = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
+       .name   = RFKILL_NAME,
+       .minor  = RFKILL_MINOR,
 };
 
 static int __init rfkill_init(void)
@@ -1383,3 +1385,6 @@ static void __exit rfkill_exit(void)
        class_unregister(&rfkill_class);
 }
 module_exit(rfkill_exit);
+
+MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(RFKILL_MINOR);
+MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" RFKILL_NAME);