Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754835AbZDTKC5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:02:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754653AbZDTKCp (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:02:45 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:35808 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754621AbZDTKCo (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:02:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:02:23 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Izik Eidus Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, Izik Eidus Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] add ksm kernel shared memory driver. Message-ID: <20090420110223.76ba4593@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1240191366-10029-6-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> References: <1240191366-10029-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-2-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-4-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-5-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-6-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 498 Lines: 12 The minor number you are using already belongs to another project. 10,234 is free but it would be good to know what device naming is proposed. I imagine other folks would like to know why you aren't using sysfs or similar or extending /dev/kvm ? Alan -- 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/