From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/anon
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:02:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116170212.B2809@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401161314590.14892@waterleaf.sonytel.be>; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:16:02PM +0100
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:16:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > If this should be maintained out-of-tree, should I get an official minor for
> > it anyway, or just unofficially use the first unused misc minor (10 in 2.4,
> > 11 in 2.6)?
>
> Apparently there's a hole in the list in 2.6.[01] (/dev/kmsg has 11), so you
> can use 10 for both 2.4 and 2.6.
Yes. 6 was /dev/core, added 0.98p3, removed 0.99p13X.
10 was reserved for /dev/aio, but when aio was
implemented it was done differently. So 10 has never been used.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 20:21 Jeff Dike
2004-01-13 20:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14 1:42 ` Jeff Dike
2004-01-14 4:46 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14 5:18 ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-14 14:41 ` Jeff Dike
2004-01-14 18:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-14 22:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-16 12:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-16 16:02 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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