Re: devfs patch v4

Stefan Mars (mars@lysator.liu.se)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:40:10 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Hi, all. Once again I'm happy to announce version 4 of my devfs
> patch. This fixes a silly bug in the directory reading code, and fixes
> compilation for kerneld.
>
> The patch also adds support for generic hard discs (I've kept the
> existing naming scheme as IDE discs don't suffer from renumbering, so
> there doesn't seem much point in changing (I don't want to break
> things for the sake of aesthetics)).

Out of curiousity.. this devfs thing, can it be applied to a 2.0 kernel,
or is 2.1.x only?

-Stefan