From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264465AbUEXRTR (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264479AbUEXRTR (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:19:17 -0400 Received: from 66-126-254-34.unm.net ([66.126.254.34]:25700 "EHLO mail.unminc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264465AbUEXRTK (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:19:10 -0400 Message-ID: <40B22E8D.6000901@unminc.com> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:19:09 -0700 From: Mark Beyer - Contractor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Benedict Glaw CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS? References: <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de> <20040524145150.GQ1912@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20040524145150.GQ1912@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk >wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>: > > >>Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering >>about it's future. >> >>Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it >>working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6? >> >> > >In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for >showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on >their MS-DOS machines. > >So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around. > > There are still embedded systems that boot from a DOS file system. Yes, there are better methods but for backward compatibility I wouldn't like to see it removed.