Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:10:07AM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > But LANANA doesn't assign minors, right?  And Linus hasn't banned those, so 
> > the patch to devices.txt should be sufficient, right?  (Please let the answer 
> > be yes!)  Moreover, isn't this Andrew's decision as the 2.6 maintainer?
> 
> For the misc major LANANA also assigns minors.

I don't think we did that for /dev/kmsg.

I haven't followed the politics or the history of this much, but if LANANA
are being unresponsive and/or are ignoring 2.6 kernels, don't we need to
either fix them up or route around them?

Maybe John is on vacation or something - it's that time of year.
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