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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO
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> I think Alan Cox was the last person to man <device@lanana.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 ?