Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <200211261833.NAA02294@ccure.karaya.com>
By author:    Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu said:
> > I think /proc/mm would be better implemented as /dev/mm.
> 
> What major and minor numbers should I assign to it?  And what would be
> the point of giving it a major and minor, anyway?
> 

Access control, ability to work in a chroot, ...

For major/minor, this is presumably a misc device (major 10) or, if
you don't need module support, a kernel core device (major 1), and
write to device@lanana.org to have a minor number assigned.

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