From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C7EC282C4 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719762080A for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:02:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1549962137; bh=AFmeaSe6iex0MK6rnHfn8jzPwArcgKQ2m54kXTJ7Hz0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=hzKZ1YS5fVlPA69afATSFkEHlA9b11flUCCyreGR4lRbHZFO6SOUw8cuSQQm/N/jh YMPl8wgigCRKp2QrtwF/Jt5hWBxeOgY2zKIFVIsE4lOMYxdhliIogtPfive5JZmusk 2WCayepgbSt24PuUqkGMkWWjSgaxiUVh+YO6wonQ= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728461AbfBLJCP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2019 04:02:15 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49344 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728086AbfBLJCP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2019 04:02:15 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BC3E42073D; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:02:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1549962135; bh=AFmeaSe6iex0MK6rnHfn8jzPwArcgKQ2m54kXTJ7Hz0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gyQXgFvmnQoURsAa4MJg/88HWcdpT8+Tt4KbjtuTyee2BOlmn6BXlnKh8rzfqzPpO 02a8XWA89cPDXiSLcc/qBvFck5IbVi4H/S9cAuvDwKcuTiSlTt75/9Xu1wVYXEDf9a 9YFdihGHJ1tKdavBBeJaRfgGv3jKCBpLTzowWc4g= Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:02:12 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Chengguang Xu Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] chardev: showing minor range for chardev in the output of /proc/devices Message-ID: <20190212090212.GE31657@kroah.com> References: <20190212084739.27602-1-cgxu519@gmx.com> <20190212084739.27602-2-cgxu519@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190212084739.27602-2-cgxu519@gmx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 04:47:39PM +0800, Chengguang Xu wrote: > Currently chardev allows to share major, showing > major with minor range for chardev will be more > helpful. > > Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu > --- > fs/char_dev.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c > index b25b1da097d5..6f00acdeb308 100644 > --- a/fs/char_dev.c > +++ b/fs/char_dev.c > @@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ void chrdev_show(struct seq_file *f, off_t offset) > mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock); > for (cd = chrdevs[major_to_index(offset)]; cd; cd = cd->next) { > if (cd->major == offset) > - seq_printf(f, "%3d %s\n", cd->major, cd->name); > + seq_printf(f, "%3d %s (%u-%u)\n", cd->major, cd->name, > + cd->baseminor, > + cd->baseminor + cd->minorct - 1); You are changing the format of a userspace file, what tools are going to break when you do this? thanks, greg k-h