Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-15 Thread Martin Dalecki
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot > > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun > > shines out of linus backside any more. > > Actually, it does. It'

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-15 Thread Rick Hohensee
Torvalds sez >On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot >> simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun >> shines out of linus backside any more. > >Actually, it does. It's just that some pe

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-15 Thread Alan Cox
> How hard is it to generate a new "disk driver framework", and let people > register themselves, kind of like the "misc" drivers do. Except we'd only > allow DISKS. You could add something like > > register_disk_driver("compaq-ciss", nr_disks, &my_queue); Why bother. Devfs does that alrea

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot > > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun > > shines out of linus backside any more. > > For exam

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > How hard is it to generate a new "disk driver framework", and let people > register themselves, kind of like the "misc" drivers do. Except we'd only > allow DISKS. You could add something like > > register_disk_driver("compaq-ciss", nr_disks,

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun > shines out of linus backside any more. Actually, it does. It's just that some people have gotten s

Re: LANANA: Getting out of hand?

2001-05-14 Thread God
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants > > > Would you mind demonstrating such wonder? Old devices are still there, > > AFAICS. Ext2 (reiserfs, devfs, abortion-of-your-choice-fs) still has > > the ability to create device nodes for them.