Commit c62b1f97 authored Oct 29, 2020 by Sangmoon Kim Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Nov 03, 2020

char: misc: increase DYNAMIC_MINORS value



DYNAMIC_MINORS value has been set to 64.
Due to this reason, we are facing a module loading fail problem of
device driver like below.

 [   45.712771] pdic_misc_init - return error : -16

We need to increase this value for registering more misc devices.

Signed-off-by: Sangmoon Kim <sangmoon.kim@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029062855.19757-1-sangmoon.kim@samsung.com


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 48a3d90a

drivers/char/misc.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(misc_mtx);
		/*
		* Assigned numbers, used for dynamic minors
		*/
		#define DYNAMIC_MINORS 64 /* like dynamic majors */
		#define DYNAMIC_MINORS 128 /* like dynamic majors */
		static DECLARE_BITMAP(misc_minors, DYNAMIC_MINORS);

		#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

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