Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:23:15 -0400


On 04 Aug 1998 16:34:54 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> A less intrusive alternative is scsidev. It queries the scsi interface
> at boottime, and creates the appropiate /dev/scsi nodes. Available from
> tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/

Oh.. glad you brought this one up. I've asked this before, and I'm asking
again: who had the "brilliant" idea to change the ordering in enum scsi_inos
between 2.0 and 2.1??? Breaking compatibility just for the fun of it -- and
I mean literally. It buys us nothing and it breaks scsidev big time.

I have a patch which I maintain locally for each machine using scsidev; all
it does is it changes the order back to the 2.0 one. I've submitted it in
the past and it got ignored... I'm willing to do it again, but I have a
feeling it's gonna have the same fate.

It's too bad, scsidev was a really nice application. And as someone said
on the list, some of us do have to boot back and forth between 2.0 and 2.1.

Ion

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