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SubjectRe: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
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> 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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