From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6 RFT] add class support to floppy tape driver zftape-init.c
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:45:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040324164556.GA20767@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16481.34778.399231.603762@alkaid.it.uu.se>
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Hanna Linder writes:
> > Here is a patch to add class support to zftape-init.c:
> >
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION(ZFTAPE_VERSION " - "
> > "VFS interface for the Linux floppy tape driver. "
> > "Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table "
> > "and builtin compression (lzrw3 algorithm)");
> >
> > I have verified it compiles but do not have the hardware to test it.
> > If someone who does could test it please do.
>
> Tested in a monolithic 2.6.5-rc2 kernel. No observable breakage.
Great, thanks for testing.
> All it does is add some dev nodes in sysfs. How useful is that?
Very useful. It allows this device to be used when using a tool like
udev to manage your /dev tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-24 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-19 23:38 Hanna Linder
2004-03-20 1:06 ` Greg KH
2004-03-24 13:06 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-03-24 16:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-24 17:19 ` Hanna Linder
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