Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 21:55:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Counter argument; We dont want the bloat of making a floppy tape have > > delusions of grandeur in kernel space when mt-st can do it in userspace. > > Counter-counter-argument: we could just export the ioctl's, and make a > "user-level-filesystem". Except it's not a filesystem, but a driver.
Still pushes code into kernel space. Im all for 'tapes' as one set of objects and a cleaner user space fallback than peer at the major - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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