File vhba-devname.diff of Package vhba-kmp.17768

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File vhba-devname.diff of Package vhba-kmp.17768

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: 2015-11-23 23:33:05.117741396 +0100

Facililtate automatic loading of the kernel module on openSUSE

depmod scans the devname aliases and populates
/lib/modules/X/modules.devname if there is also a
{block,char}-major-* alias. udev uses this file then to prepopulate
/dev so that a program can open a device node and thereby trigger
autoloading.

This patch adds the devname (requirement 1), and assigns
a static number (requirement 2, for openSUSE only).

---
 vhba.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: vhba-module-20140928/vhba.c
===================================================================
--- vhba-module-20140928.orig/vhba.c
+++ vhba-module-20140928/vhba.c
@@ -954,7 +954,11 @@ static struct file_operations vhba_ctl_f
 };
 
 static struct miscdevice vhba_miscdev = {
-    .minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
+	/* Facilitate autoload on openSUSE. The exact number does not matter,
+	 * and may change over time, e.g. if "170" gets used by upstream.
+	 * Of essence is that MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR is to be avoided.
+	 */
+    .minor = 170,
     .name = "vhba_ctl",
     .fops = &vhba_ctl_fops,
 };
@@ -1069,3 +1073,5 @@ static void __exit vhba_exit(void)
 module_init(vhba_init);
 module_exit(vhba_exit);
 
+MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vhba_ctl");
+MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(170);

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