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SubjectRe: [RFC] /dev/anon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:16:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > If this should be maintained out-of-tree, should I get an official minor for
> > it anyway, or just unofficially use the first unused misc minor (10 in 2.4,
> > 11 in 2.6)?
>
> Apparently there's a hole in the list in 2.6.[01] (/dev/kmsg has 11), so you
> can use 10 for both 2.4 and 2.6.

Yes. 6 was /dev/core, added 0.98p3, removed 0.99p13X.
10 was reserved for /dev/aio, but when aio was
implemented it was done differently. So 10 has never been used.

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