Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:45:25PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Well, 'Documentation/devices.txt' says:
> > > 
> > >   THE DEVICE REGISTRY IS OFFICIALLY FROZEN FOR LINUS TORVALDS' KERNEL
> > >   TREE.  At Linus' request, no more allocations will be made official
> > >   for Linus' kernel tree; the 3 June 2001 version of this list is the
> > >   official final version of this registry.
> > 
> > Not true, you can get new numbers.
> 
> I don't understand, what's the reason for this warning then?  To scare
> away developers wanting to allocate lots of device numbers?

It's an old message, and yes, it's there to scare people away.  Glad to
see it's working :)

thanks,

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/