Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:02:12 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [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.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |