The patch titled ksm: use another miscdevice minor number. has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ksm: use another miscdevice minor number. From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx> The old number was registered already by another project. The new number is #234. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/devices.txt | 1 + include/linux/miscdevice.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Documentation/devices.txt~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number Documentation/devices.txt --- a/Documentation/devices.txt~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number +++ a/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 231 = /dev/snapshot System memory snapshot device 232 = /dev/kvm Kernel-based virtual machine (hardware virtualization extensions) 233 = /dev/kmview View-OS A process with a view + 234 = /dev/ksm Dynamic page sharing 240-254 Reserved for local use 255 Reserved for MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR diff -puN include/linux/miscdevice.h~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number include/linux/miscdevice.h --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number +++ a/include/linux/miscdevice.h @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ #define HPET_MINOR 228 #define FUSE_MINOR 229 #define KVM_MINOR 232 -#define KSM_MINOR 233 +#define KSM_MINOR 234 #define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR 255 struct device; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch ksm-mmu_notifiers-add-set_pte_at_notify.patch ksm-add-get_pte-helper-function-fetching-pte-for-va.patch ksm-add-get_pte-helper-function-fetching-pte-for-va-fix.patch ksm-add-page_wrprotect-write-protecting-page.patch ksm-add-replace_page-change-the-page-pte-is-pointing-to.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-checkpatch-fixes.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-fix-unsafe-pte-fetching.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-fix.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-limiting-the-num-of-mem-regions-user-can-register-per-fd.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-dont-allow-overlap-memory-addresses-registrations.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-change-the-ksm_remove_memory_region-ioctl.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-change-the-prot-handling-to-use-the-generic-helper-functions.patch ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html