Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:19:01 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 |
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Alexander Viro writes: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Alain Knaff wrote: > > Good. But then, what's the point of devfs=only ? I assumed this was > > Ask Richard. Maybe you will be able to get a straight answer. I > hadn't...
IIRC that I've told you this already. Here it is again: devfs=only serves as a way of enforcing that the devfs entry->driver ops connection is the only way of accessing a driver. It deliberately breaks the fallback to major-table-lookup.
And it actually works now. It doesn't require massive 2.5 changes. When I boot with devfs=only (which is always), my system still works.
Regards,
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