Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:45:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

LANANA isn't ignoring 2.6.  Linus mandated they shouldn't accept new
allocations for 2.6 anymore - but given there's very few 2.6-only drivers
this hasn't been much of a problem so far.  Or to quote from
Documentation/devices.txt:

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THE DEVICE REGISTRY IS OFFICIALLY FROZEN FOR LINUS TORVALDS' KERNEL
TREE.  At Linus' request, no more allocations will be made official
for Linus' kernel tree; the 3 June 2001 version of this list is the
official final version of this registry.  At Alan Cox' request,
however, the registry will continue to be maintained for the -ac
series of kernels, and registrations will be accepted.
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