From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263017AbUCXQqe (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:46:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263769AbUCXQqe (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:46:34 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:20355 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263017AbUCXQqc (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:46:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:45:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Hanna Linder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6 RFT] add class support to floppy tape driver zftape-init.c Message-ID: <20040324164556.GA20767@kroah.com> References: <58110000.1079739485@w-hlinder.beaverton.ibm.com> <16481.34778.399231.603762@alkaid.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16481.34778.399231.603762@alkaid.it.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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