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SubjectRe: 2.6: future of UMSDOS?
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Mark Beyer - Contractor wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
> >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.

It's broken in 2.6.

Does anyone need it enough to fix it?

cu
Adrian

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