Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 08:16:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Counter argument; We dont want the bloat of making a floppy tape have > delusions of grandeur in kernel space when mt-st can do it in userspace.
Counter-counter-argument: we could just export the ioctl's, and make a "user-level-filesystem". Except it's not a filesystem, but a driver.
Linus
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