Messages in this thread |  | | From | rohrer keith w <> | Subject | Re: Disk Compression | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:35:10 -0600 (CST) |
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> Keith Rohrer <kwrohrer@uiuc.edu> writes: > > If nothing else, the device number wasn't registered and conflicts with > > the Cyclades driver in the main distribution. > You're wrong on both counts. It was registered (see > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt) Oops, my bad; I didn't bother to check, but relied on a memory of the double kernel patch failing when I upgraded to the kernel version which first included the Cyclades driver, at that particular point.
>and does not conflict with > the Cyclades driver because block and character devices have different > "numberspaces." That they do, though apparently at the time this was little enough used (or they were declared in separate sequences) that it wasn't obvious from the code.
Keith
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