Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 19:30:33 +0200 | | From | Martin Dalecki <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Artop update |
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Franz Sirl wrote: > Hi, > > finally I was able to test the new driver and except for the "return 0 instead > of dev-irq" typo all was fine. I added a few minor changes based on the > discussion with Vojtech though.
Hey cool!
> The hunk to main.c is needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.
Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...
Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)
Something along the lines of:
cat /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc / ext3 v2.4,defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 / ext3 v2.5,defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop1 /mnt/1 auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop2 /mnt/2 auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable: 2.5:/dev/sda1 / ext3 .... Opinnions?
perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root parameter of course.
With something along root=2.5:/dev/sda1,2.4:/dev/hdc one could be living with... The respecive kernel would just pick the entry which is matching it's version and be fine.
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