Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux | Date | 4 Sep 2000 22:44:24 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009031449380.15659-100000@master.linux-ide.org> By author: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > This it will have to wait for 2.5, but everyone needs to get off the issue > that it is a filter and understand that it is a command completion > pre-handler. I hope that you finally understand the point and we do not > have to fight again, next will be to take LT to school about the issue. > > I hope by that time I will have a newer model that will force the enduser > to do the entire setup with a task-struct that includes a table for > setting up table io rules. Then everyone will have to read the 404 page > doc to understand how to apply the taskfile. In short if you can not > setup the taskfile in user-space and define the needed return, you have no > business calling the IOCTL; however, I will allow all BAD-ROOTS to ram > shit down the pipes and only certify programs that are known to do things > correctly. This will allow OEMs to keep their secrets and remove Linux > from needed to know or allow binary modules to load in the driver that are > not native. >
This sounds excellent!
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