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    HID: uhid: allocate static minor · 19872d20
    David Herrmann authored
    udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/<node> device-nodes if
    it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel
    automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this
    requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This
    feature was introduced by:
    
      commit 578454ff
      Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Date:   Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200
    
          driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
    
    However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We
    need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use.
    
    Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good
    to go.
    Reported-by: default avatarTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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