From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:21:10 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:17169 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:20:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3B002FC6.C0093C18@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:19:34 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants 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 First of all, I apologize for not having sent this notice out sooner. This kind of writing is very painful to deal with. Linus Torvalds has requested a moratorium on new device number assignments. His hope is that a new and better method for device space handing will emerge as a result. Alan Cox has requested that I maintain a forked registry for his -ac kernel patch tree. I have agreed to do so once I have forked off the "final" version of the registry for Linus' tree. At that time I will process the backlog for the benefit of the -ac registry only. Please have patience until I can get that to happen. Please note that this is not my decision (in fact, I have serious concerns with it.) In particular, /dev namespace coordination still applies. Sincerely, H. Peter Anvin The Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority