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The various FSI devices (sbefifo, occ, scom, more to come) currently use misc devices. This is problematic as the minor device space for misc is limited and there can be a lot of them. Also it limits our ability to move them to a dedicated /dev/fsi directory or to be smart about device naming and numbering. It also means we have IDAs on every single of these drivers This creates a common fsi "device_type" for the optional /dev/fsi grouping and a dev_t allocator for all FSI devices. "Legacy" devices get to use a backward compatible numbering scheme (as long as chip id <16 and there's only one copy of a given unit type per chip). A single major number and a single IDA are shared for all FSI devices. This doesn't convert the FSI device drivers to use the new scheme yet, they will be converted individually. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.