Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:21:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:21:28 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:12480 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:21:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:24:59 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Peter Osterlund Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones , Bill Davidsen , Guillaume Boissiere Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST Message-ID: <20020724082458.A1109@suse.de> References: <20020723113923.H800@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1972 Lines: 51 On Tue, Jul 23 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 19 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > Peter Osterlund writes: > > > > > > > Dave Jones writes: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:46:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing) (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund) > > > > > > Hopefully this is close as well > > > > > > > > > > This has been around for an age, but I haven't seen anything for 2.5 > > > > > yet. Then again, I dropped off the packet-writing mailing list a long > > > > > time ago, so I'm not sure how up to date those folks are. > > > > > > > > Patches for 2.5 can be found here: > > > > > > > > http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/ > > > > > > > > The most recent patch is for 2.5.25. As far as I know, there are only > > > > two remaining problems with the 2.5 patch: > > > > > > Btw, there is one more potential problem. A new block major number is > > > allocated for the pktcdvd device. Is this still forbidden? Are there > > > better ways to do this now? > > > > Why a new number? What's wrong with the official 97? > > It is still using 97. I didn't know it was official until it got into the > kernel tree. I think Linus once said he wouldn't accept patches adding > device numbers, because he wanted people to think up something better than > device numbers. > > I was thinking about this old message: > > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0105.1/1042.html > > If that's no longer a problem, then fine. 97 was allocated a loong time ago, it predates the above message. -- Jens Axboe - 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/