Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

Lennart Sorensen
2006-08-21T17:31:59Z

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.

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Len Sorensen