From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:41:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:40:43 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:53520 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:40:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6A7639.7F4A0A21@transmeta.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:40:09 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Device List Maintainer Subject: Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ?? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Regardless if we rip out the entire rule of majors for dev_t, will there > be a service dummy driver to various block-devices? There is a real need > for this if we are going to get full control of the hardware by indirect > access obtain the functionality that I see and need in the near future. > At this point, I'll allocate a device number when someone is ready to release a driver - no sooner. There simply is not a whole lot of choice because of the extreme shortage of device numbers that's going to last us until dev_t gets expanded. -hpad -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/