Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 18 2013 - 19:19:44 EST


On 12/18/2013 03:55 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>> I think Alan Cox was the last person to man <device@xxxxxxxxxx>... Alan,
>> are you still doing that? (Otherwise patching the file in the Linux
>> kernel tree seems eminently sensible... there really isn't any need to
>> reserve numbers for out-of-tree drivers anymore. Just another perk of
>> being in-tree.)
>
> I am sort of but the mail alias hasn't worked for a long time afaik.
>
> From the records I have 196 was never issued to anything in tree or
> mainstream in recent history so lets make it official ?
>

I wonder if I have the RCS file from way back when...

-hpa

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