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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] CAPI: Officially claim char major 191
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:12 +0100
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Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Hi Alan,

> > I found no trace of this mysterious "pcl181" device, neither in-tree nor
> > out there in the wild. At the same time, the in-tree CAPI middleware is
> > using major 191 for many years now and obviously without any conflict.
> > Let's officially claim this major number.
> 
> This is not the way it should have been done but whoever needs spanking
> got away with it years ago. Given that this seems the best way forward.
> 
> With LANANA hat on

actually in the days of udev, the capifs is not really needed anymore.
The right choice would be to remove it. I haven't been enabling it since
years.

Regards

Marcel