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

Alan Cox
2004-11-17T16:43:11Z

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)