Re: 2.0, loggings, cpu quotas, 2.1 issues, etc.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:57:51 +0100 (BST)


> ***** Better removeable media/cartridge support. Many devices (Zip, Jazz,
> Bernouli, CDROM, etc) can be ejected by software. When the disk is
> unmounted, the device should eject it's disk. This should not be very
> difficult to implement.

You simply use the ioctl for asking for an eject in the umount program. See
"eject" the program itself.

> ***** SMP support should be a standard kernel configure option in 2.1.

Its seperate in 2.0 to keep the number of files rebuilt after redoing make
config down to a sensible level.

Alan