From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Czm5C-00065X-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:28:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Czm59-00062M-PT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:28:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Czm59-00061r-F6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:28:23 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CzlrY-0006P7-Mb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:14:20 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: KQEMU error, unable to get major 254 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:14:17 +0000 References: <420D4C80.7080209@eclis.ch> In-Reply-To: <420D4C80.7080209@eclis.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502120114.17631.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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