Re: ftape: update to version 4.xx sometime?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:00:28 -0400

"Andreas K. Huettel" wrote:
>
> Dear Linux kernel programmers,
>
> is there any chance for the ftape driver in the kernel tree (currently
> version 3.xx afaik) to get updated sometime? I.e. so that people can
> use the IOMEGA Ditto Max?
>
> (Last time I tried, the version 4.02 supplied at
> http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/
> did only compile with 2.0.x kernels.)

Are there patent issues with the compression module?
http://www.ross.net/compression/patents.html

Jeff

-- 
Custom driver development	|    Never worry about theory as long
Open source programming		|    as the machinery does what it's
				|    supposed to do.  -- R. A. Heinlein


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