ptp: dynamic allocation of PHC char devices
authorJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:56:15 +0000 (00:56 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:22:45 +0000 (18:22 -0400)
commit7356a764cd76e155014c226ccb157219be918891
tree3cdc441f494782192ebdc2a23d5930224ca3743c
parentd6a4a10411764cf1c3a5dad4f06c5ebe5194488b
ptp: dynamic allocation of PHC char devices

As network adapters supporting PTP are becoming more common, machines with
many NICs suddenly have many PHCs, too. The current limit of eight /dev/ptp*
char devices (and thus, 8 network interfaces with PHC) is insufficient. Let
the ptp driver allocate the char devices dynamically.

Tested with 28 PHCs, removing and re-adding some of them.

Thanks to Ben Hutchings for advice leading to simpler and cleaner patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c