Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:45:56 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6 RFT] add class support to floppy tape driver zftape-init.c |
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Hanna Linder writes: > > Here is a patch to add class support to zftape-init.c: > > > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION(ZFTAPE_VERSION " - " > > "VFS interface for the Linux floppy tape driver. " > > "Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table " > > "and builtin compression (lzrw3 algorithm)"); > > > > I have verified it compiles but do not have the hardware to test it. > > If someone who does could test it please do. > > Tested in a monolithic 2.6.5-rc2 kernel. No observable breakage.
Great, thanks for testing.
> All it does is add some dev nodes in sysfs. How useful is that?
Very useful. It allows this device to be used when using a tool like udev to manage your /dev tree.
thanks,
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