From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755231Ab0AWMrS (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:47:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754916Ab0AWMrR (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:47:17 -0500 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:45170 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754764Ab0AWMrQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:47:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] CAPI: Officially claim char major 191 From: Marcel Holtmann To: Alan Cox Cc: Jan Kiszka , David Miller , Karsten Keil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, i4ldeveloper@listserv.isdn4linux.de, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20100123122430.5a078b4a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <445e1bf881b6f8b6a5886d6eee70f6435a5619d6.1264201408.git.jan.kiszka@web.de> <20100123122430.5a078b4a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:12 +0100 Message-ID: <1264250892.3469.52.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, > > I found no trace of this mysterious "pcl181" device, neither in-tree nor > > out there in the wild. At the same time, the in-tree CAPI middleware is > > using major 191 for many years now and obviously without any conflict. > > Let's officially claim this major number. > > This is not the way it should have been done but whoever needs spanking > got away with it years ago. Given that this seems the best way forward. > > With LANANA hat on actually in the days of udev, the capifs is not really needed anymore. The right choice would be to remove it. I haven't been enabling it since years. Regards Marcel