There is a new snapshot which _should_ compile and run with v2.2 kernels.
Other notable changes (w.r.t. the previous ftape-4.03-pre-something) are:
- no more negative use counts with v2.0 kernels
- should compile on alpha AXP (don't know whether it works)
- debugging levels and the "function_nest_level" are now of
atomic_t. This solves some problems with SMP machines were debugging
messages wasn't printed correctly sometimes.
- See ChangeLog for little more detailed description of what has changed.
Still to do:
- Release 4.03.
- Get a trace log of DOS program driving a Seagate parallel port tape
drive. They still doesn't work with ftape.
- Provide kernel patches and try to push ftape-4.03 into v2.2 SOON.
- Determine whether ftape works with alpha machines.
- search the mailing list backlog for relevant bug reports (only 630
messages, so what :-)
The snapshot is located at
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/ftape-4.x-1999_02_07.tar.gz
Claus
P.s.:
Although located under the "unstable/" directory it should not be less
stable than the other pre-releases. It is just that those tarballs are
_potentially_ unstable as they are automatically created by a cron job
each night.
--
Claus-Justus Heine
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