Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Bryan Henderson
2004-11-17T21:48:54Z

>> 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

LANANA's web site says that the LANANA version of devices.txt went
"officially" in the "2.6 bitkeeper tree," which I have to assume is
Linus', in March 2004. But the LANANA version (from lanana.org) does
still contain the "frozen as of 2001 in Linus' tree" blurb above.