Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:03:39 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace |
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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,
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