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From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 7eggert@gmx.de, Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:31:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060821173155.GG13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E74FD9.7000507@flower.upol.cz>

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:52:25PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> AFAIK many drivers allow multiple opening of device files. If programs do 
> not
> honor any kind of locking (advisory, O_EXCL) use mandatory locking (DOS 2.0
> compatibility, no problems ;)
> 
> Yea. But see RH managers on its videos, happy about usb sticks being plugged
> and worked, he-he:
> <http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/mov/005_BehindScenes_RHEL4.mov>.
> 
> I've just installed debian-gnu and got all that
> cpufrequtils, powermgmt, acpiutils installed on amd64 laptop
> while i just need:
> ,-
> |modprobe powernow-k8
> |modprobe cpufreq_ondemand
> |echo ondemand >scailing_governor
> `-
> Anyway long, almost 10 years, way to win95 and win98 is never ending ;D

Don't worry, NT4 didn't do that either, you had to wait for windows 2000
before you got a decent kernel and all the power management and hotplug
stuff.

--
Len Sorensen

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6Kxns-7AV-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6Kytd-1g2-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <6KyCQ-1w7-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-08-17 12:27     ` PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 12:35       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 12:31         ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-18 12:53           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 16:45           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:39       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:23         ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 13:41           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-17 13:54             ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 14:38               ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-18 12:39                 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-08-17 13:48           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 14:36             ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-17 14:38               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 15:09               ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 17:52               ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-21 17:31                 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2006-08-16 17:26 Dirk
2006-08-16 17:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-16 18:37   ` Dirk
2006-08-16 18:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-16 18:44   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 19:30   ` Dirk
2006-08-16 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-16 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-17  7:50   ` Jan Engelhardt

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