Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:36:10 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2004-11-16 at 14:01, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > "fuse/version" you have in /proc while it belongs to /proc > > "fuse/dev" you have in /proc while it belongs to /dev > > Well, 'Documentation/devices.txt' says: > > THE DEVICE REGISTRY IS OFFICIALLY FROZEN FOR LINUS TORVALDS' KERNEL > TREE. At Linus' request, no more allocations will be made official > for Linus' kernel tree; the 3 June 2001 version of this list is the > official final version of this registry.
This is just to keep Linus happy, every vendor on the planet ignores it and co-operates with LANANA so that we have a single unified cross vendor namespace and numbering scheme. The numbering matters a lot less now with udev but the naming is critical to all the poor app and config tool authors.
So LANANA is authoritative except for Linus computer 8)
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