OK. I am the maintainer of the code, and I will try to make sense out
of all the patches that got submitted while I was away on holiday...
BTW, I also am looking forward to 2.5 starting when we can get this
devfs stuff really working. I have a version of ide-floppy "working
with devfs" on my system but it still has too many funnies.
Watch this space.
Paul
Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>Are you saying that the two patch conflict? If not, can someone please
>>verify that both together are safe? Or is your patch a superset?
>>
>>
>
> Actually, the patches are complementary. However, my patch I won't be
> continuing to work on, as the entire way that partitions are
> read/validated/passed to devfs/etc will be changed in 2.5, and I've already
> forwarded this patch over to the maintainer of that code (whose name escapes
> my memory at the moment). So I'd say don't worry about it from the devfs
> end, you'll see the changes once 2.5 opens and these changes get merged in
> to that tree.
>
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