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Re: [Xen-devel] question about PXE

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] question about PXE
From: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:36:07 +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 ;-)

Ian





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