linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: emit a warning when we go below dynamic major range

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Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:45:34 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: emit a warning when we go below dynamic major range

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Alan: is your list at LANANA even maintained? It seems wildly
>> out of sync with what's in the kernel. Maybe time to patch out
>> some of the text in devices.txt directing people over there?
>
> Someone took my access to update the database away, removed my access
> to the email and then ignored repeated queries about it.
>
> So it's broken and I simply don't care.

Aha OK, let's treat that as a technical problem and delete the
references to it, and then henceforth regard the file in the kernel
as the master.

Thanks!
Linus Walleij