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