HID: uhid: allocate static minor

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 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881
  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: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
index 5bf2fb785844..93b00d76374c 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ static const struct file_operations uhid_fops = {
 
 static struct miscdevice uhid_misc = {
         .fops           = &uhid_fops,
-        .minor          = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
+        .minor          = UHID_MINOR,
         .name           = UHID_NAME,
 };
 
@@ -634,4 +634,5 @@ module_exit(uhid_exit);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem");
+MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UHID_MINOR);
 MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UHID_NAME);
diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 09c2300ddb37..cb358355ef43 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #define MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR       236
 #define LOOP_CTRL_MINOR         237
 #define VHOST_NET_MINOR         238
+#define UHID_MINOR              239
 #define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR      255
 
 struct device;