Re: [PATCH 31/31] CAPI: Officially claim char major 191

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Alan,

> > I found no trace of this mysterious "pcl181" device, neither in-tree nor
> > out there in the wild. At the same time, the in-tree CAPI middleware is
> > using major 191 for many years now and obviously without any conflict.
> > Let's officially claim this major number.
> 
> This is not the way it should have been done but whoever needs spanking
> got away with it years ago. Given that this seems the best way forward.
> 
> With LANANA hat on

actually in the days of udev, the capifs is not really needed anymore.
The right choice would be to remove it. I haven't been enabling it since
years.

Regards

Marcel


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