Re: Request for an urgent improvement for mknod manual

[Rob Landley]

On 9/24/24 04:23, Mcgiwer via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
> I want to propose a following proposal for the `mknod` manual:
> 
> Please urgently add a complete list ofall possible MAJOR and MINOR values.

They vary between Linux and BSD, some devices vary between hardware 
architectures...

> Such information is hard to find without digging deep into the source files

The standard ones are at
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lanana/device-list/devices-2.6.txt

It would be nice if that list was updated, but unfortunately the Linux
Foundation acquired the Linux Standard Base many years ago, and LF is a 501c6
trade association (NOT a 501c3 non-profit) operating exclusively on behalf of
its members, the same kind of legal entity as the Tobacco Institute and
Microsoft's old "don't copy that floppy" sock puppet "Software Publisher's
Association".

Thus while https://www.lanana.org/ is technically still up, the "linux device
link" list from that page went 404 shortly after the Linux Foundation
acquisition completed, and has stayed that way ever since. The "Linux Standard
Base" project was similarly ended by the Linux Foundation's mismanagement, ala
https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/ almost a decade ago now.

Microsoft became a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation 8 years ago. In other
news, the Linux Foundation has platinum memberships.

Rob