From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:58:12 -0400 Received: from f00f.stub.clear.net.nz ([203.167.224.51]:26896 "HELO metastasis.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:57:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:57:54 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: Richard Gooch , Ingo Oeser , Jonathan Lundell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cw@f00f.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer Message-ID: <20010503205754.A26313@metastasis.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <200105011653.f41Grwm12595@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:32:41PM +0100 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:32:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Having thought over the issues I plan to maintain a 32bit dev_t kernel with conventional mknod behaviour, even if Linus won't. One very interesting item that Peter Anvin noted is that its not clear in POSIX that mknod /dev/ttyF00 c 100 100 open("/dev/ttyF00/speed=9600,clocal"); is illegal. That may be a nice way to get much of the desired behaviour without totally breaking compatibility Linus has suggested we do something similar in 2.5.x for multiple data streams (or forks) in certain filesystems sugh as HFS and NTFS... you might want to check the two very similar ideas don't collide. --cw