Re: [PATCH 2.6 RFT] add class support to floppy tape driver zftape-init.c

[Greg KH]

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
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