To: greg@kroah.com
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In-reply-to: <20041116163314.GA6264@kroah.com> (message from Greg KH on Tue,
	16 Nov 2004 08:33:14 -0800)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace
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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:45:25 +0100
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> > 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.
> 
> Not true, you can get new numbers.

I don't understand, what's the reason for this warning then?  To scare
away developers wanting to allocate lots of device numbers?

> Don't put things that should be in /dev into /proc, not allowed.
> 
> > So placing it in /proc doesn't seem to me such a bad idea.
> 
> No.  Actually, put it in sysfs, and then udev will create your /dev node
> for you automatically.  And in sysfs you can put your other stuff
> (version, etc.) which is the proper place for it.

I'll do that.

Thanks,
Miklos

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