Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev

kwrohrer@enteract.com
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 01:07:03 -0600 (CST)


And lo, david parsons saith unto me:
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ ptys? Oh, pooh on them.
> \/
Implement the current scheme once, more's the pty. Implement it twice,
more's the shame.

ObUsefulContent: I second the "make floppy DMA buffer usage dynamic"
suggestion. Presumably the new default setting would be "autodma"
(as contrasted with "dma", which would be dma or nothing, and "nodma",
which would be non-dma or nothing), and would only have to check which
mode to be in at those times the driver was already trying to allocate
a DMA buffer in the first place... (nobody needs the headache of
switching methods in the middle of a queue of requests)

Keith (grinning, ducking, and running...)