Also, Andre's new IDE driver subsystem will allow me to continue what I had
originally started working on, which was implementing Media Status
Notification in the ide-floppy driver, so that the drive can "intelligently"
allow/disallow media removal, and when media is removed, the /dev entries
will be kept up to date as well. This looks like all 2.5 stuff as well,
though, as I don't expect to see Andre's new IDE stuff for 2.4 any time
soon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bristow" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Richard Gooch" <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Martin Wilck"
<Martin.Wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "devfs mailing list"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ide-floppy & devfs
> OK. I am the maintainer of the code, and I will try to make sense out
> of all the patches that got submitted while I was away on holiday...
>
> BTW, I also am looking forward to 2.5 starting when we can get this
> devfs stuff really working. I have a version of ide-floppy "working
> with devfs" on my system but it still has too many funnies.
>
> Watch this space.
>
> Paul
>
> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >>Are you saying that the two patch conflict? If not, can someone please
> >>verify that both together are safe? Or is your patch a superset?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Actually, the patches are complementary. However, my patch I won't be
> > continuing to work on, as the entire way that partitions are
> > read/validated/passed to devfs/etc will be changed in 2.5, and I've
already
> > forwarded this patch over to the maintainer of that code (whose name
escapes
> > my memory at the moment). So I'd say don't worry about it from the devfs
> > end, you'll see the changes once 2.5 opens and these changes get merged
in
> > to that tree.
> >
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