From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:25:06 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Christiaan Welvaart Cc: bj93543@binghamton.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: swim3 + ide-floppy devfs patch (was Re: Q: devfs and swim3) Message-ID: <20010511182506.R30868@opus.bloom.county> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from C.J.Welvaart@phys.uu.nl on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:19:52PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:19:52PM +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 bj93543@binghamton.edu wrote: > > > Is there known any reason why swim3 floppy controler is not inserted > > in devfs ? > > or can be swim3.c patched like: > > > > -swim3.c:1034: ...register_blkdev... > > +swim3.c:1034: ...devfs_register_blkdev... > > This is not enough, it just prevents the floppy driver to be registered if > you tell devfs to not use the old-style device system with major/minor > numbers I believe. Below a patch that seems to work, though I'm not sure > if the permissions are right. I also included a patch for ide-floppy since > my zip drive was missing from devfs as well. That one should probably be > sent to the regular linux-kernel list though. [I ment to do something about this sooner, really]. I've applied the swim3 patch to the 2_4 bk tree, so this should propogate eventually. The ide-floppy one really should goto l-k or better yet the IDE maintainer. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/