From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: jbarnes@engr.sgi.com, erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com, pfg@sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:45:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625134537.072d17b9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040625155335.GA30427@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:10:07AM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > But LANANA doesn't assign minors, right? And Linus hasn't banned those, so
> > the patch to devices.txt should be sufficient, right? (Please let the answer
> > be yes!) Moreover, isn't this Andrew's decision as the 2.6 maintainer?
>
> For the misc major LANANA also assigns minors.
I don't think we did that for /dev/kmsg.
I haven't followed the politics or the history of this much, but if LANANA
are being unresponsive and/or are ignoring 2.6 kernels, don't we need to
either fix them up or route around them?
Maybe John is on vacation or something - it's that time of year.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 14:48 [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 21:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 3:15 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:46 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 13:00 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-26 23:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 0:24 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:14 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 1:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:54 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 8:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 9:02 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 12:28 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 19:04 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 19:47 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 23:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-25 15:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 20:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-25 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 16:16 Pat Gefre
2004-06-22 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-22 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 14:42 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:07 ` Erik Jacobson
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