From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752894Ab3LSATk (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:19:40 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53154 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752819Ab3LSATi (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:19:38 -0500 Message-ID: <52B23B51.2030800@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:18:25 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: One Thousand Gnomes CC: Greg KH , Alex Williamson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO References: <20131218204024.30540.55302.stgit@bling.home> <20131218210141.GA11267@kroah.com> <52B21B7E.1020307@zytor.com> <20131218235526.4b4388d4@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131218235526.4b4388d4@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/18/2013 03:55 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >> I think Alan Cox was the last person to man ... Alan, >> are you still doing that? (Otherwise patching the file in the Linux >> kernel tree seems eminently sensible... there really isn't any need to >> reserve numbers for out-of-tree drivers anymore. Just another perk of >> being in-tree.) > > I am sort of but the mail alias hasn't worked for a long time afaik. > > From the records I have 196 was never issued to anything in tree or > mainstream in recent history so lets make it official ? > I wonder if I have the RCS file from way back when... -hpa