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'
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
> 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
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
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,
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
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.
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