linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

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Message-ID: <52B23B51.2030800@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:18:25 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

On 12/18/2013 03:55 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>> I think Alan Cox was the last person to man <device@...ana.org>... 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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