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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: KQEMU error, unable to get major 254
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:14:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502120114.17631.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420D4C80.7080209@eclis.ch>

On Saturday 12 February 2005 00:23, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
>  > Can someone tell where do you "officially" can request a major number
>  > these days? (if it's possible)..
>
> See Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel project.
> Major number from 232 to 239 seem to be unassigned yet. You can maybe
> pick one of them and send a patch to Linux to update the document.

Why does qemu need a major number anyway? Wouldn't it be better to use a minor 
number from the "misc" class (major 10).

Specifically major 10, minor 240-254 are "reserved for local use", so it 
should be safe to use those until such time as qemu gets an official device 
id.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-12  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-12  0:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: KQEMU error, unable to get major 254 Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-02-12  1:14 ` Paul Brook [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-11  1:19 [Qemu-devel] " Darryl Dixon
2005-02-11  1:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Darryl Dixon

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