Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 03:28:15PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
So we need to preserve the layout, with the easiest way probably being "add
one more ktype and use kobject_init_and_add() instead of that device_create()".
Sigh...

What do you mean? We just need to replace the bogus "pd->pkt_dev" with
MKDEV(0, 0) and we are fine.

Userland-visible change - right now cat /sys/class/pktcdvd/pktcdvd3/dev will
give you dev_t of the block device in question.
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