From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: KQEMU error, unable to get major 254
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:14:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502120114.17631.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420D4C80.7080209@eclis.ch>
On Saturday 12 February 2005 00:23, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> > Can someone tell where do you "officially" can request a major number
> > these days? (if it's possible)..
>
> See Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel project.
> Major number from 232 to 239 seem to be unassigned yet. You can maybe
> pick one of them and send a patch to Linux to update the document.
Why does qemu need a major number anyway? Wouldn't it be better to use a minor
number from the "misc" class (major 10).
Specifically major 10, minor 240-254 are "reserved for local use", so it
should be safe to use those until such time as qemu gets an official device
id.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-12 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-12 0:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: KQEMU error, unable to get major 254 Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-02-12 1:14 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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2005-02-11 1:19 [Qemu-devel] " Darryl Dixon
2005-02-11 1:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Darryl Dixon
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