From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265187AbUE0U26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 16:28:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265197AbUE0U26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 16:28:58 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:20690 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265187AbUE0U24 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 16:28:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:28:38 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Mark Beyer - Contractor Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS? Message-ID: <20040527202837.GV16099@fs.tum.de> References: <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de> <20040524145150.GQ1912@lug-owl.de> <40B22E8D.6000901@unminc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40B22E8D.6000901@unminc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Mark Beyer - Contractor wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk > >wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>: > > > > > >>Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering > >>about it's future. > >> > >>Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it > >>working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6? > >> > >> > > > >In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for > >showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on > >their MS-DOS machines. > > > >So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around. > > > > > There are still embedded systems that boot from a DOS file system. Yes, > there are better methods but for backward compatibility I wouldn't like > to see it removed. It's broken in 2.6. Does anyone need it enough to fix it? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed