From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:49:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:49:37 -0500 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:4310 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:49:25 -0500 From: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com Message-ID: <3AC3914E.B0EE39E3@vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:47:26 +0000 Reply-To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com Organization: IBM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Obtaining new Device Numbers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi All, According to Documentation/devices.txt to request new major / numbers, all you should have to do is get ahold of H. Peter Anvin. Does anybody know if he is still doing this? Perhaps has he passed this duty on to someone else? It would appear he isn't answering requests mailed to device@lanana.org. I'm trying to get the major / minor number issues resolved for the Linux port to the IBM AS/400 aka iSeries. We have released our first set of patches and before we put out the next set we'd like to get this nailed down as we're using bogus major / minor numbers that we just grabbed out of mid-air... obviously not the right thing. For those interested in the patches, take a gander to oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/iSeries_notes.php Thanks much for any info! Regards, Tom -- Tom Gall - PowerPC Linux Team "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) tgall@rochcivictheatre.org http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux