From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:36:10 +0000 Message-ID: <1100705768.419.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <84144f0204111602136a9bbded@mail.gmail.com> <20041116120226.A27354@pauline.vellum.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rcpt-linux-fsdevel.AT.vger.kernel.org@jankratochvil.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Miklos Szeredi In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2004-11-16 at 14:01, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > "fuse/version" you have in /proc while it belongs to /proc > > "fuse/dev" you have in /proc while it belongs to /dev > > Well, 'Documentation/devices.txt' says: > > 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. This is just to keep Linus happy, every vendor on the planet ignores it and co-operates with LANANA so that we have a single unified cross vendor namespace and numbering scheme. The numbering matters a lot less now with udev but the naming is critical to all the poor app and config tool authors. So LANANA is authoritative except for Linus computer 8)