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Re: [Xen-devel] question about PXE

To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] question about PXE
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:17:20 +0100
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> > > The question is, what major,minor would be best to go for? Pretty
> > > much all the numbers in the misc range have already gone.
> > > At the very least, stealing something like the atarimouse would
> > > have been smarter than tun.
> > 
> > I'm moving it to 10,201 and added code to xend so it will
> > automatically recreate the device file if it has the wrong
> > major,minor. 
> > 
> > Is there a comprehensive miscdev list? Is 10,201 actually free?
> 
> Documentation/devices.txt
> 
> It's probably time that we requested a proper registration.
> Alternatively, we could pick something like the atarimouse that
> we are never going to clash with (famous last words ;-)

Well 10,201 conflicts with "Transmeta GULP-B buttons", but I think we
can live with that for the time being!

It is easily changed again after we have properly requested a minor
number. 

 -- Keir


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