Re: New SYM53C8XX driver in 2.4.3-ac5 FIXES CD Writing!!!!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:28:05 +0100 (BST)


> kernel is more broken than beta7 version, a lot of lvm operations in the
> kernel version DON'T WORK!!!

beta7 is also broken

> What are the problems????

Disgusting stuff like using the low 2bits of an address as flags.

> Reiserfs quota support should be added to the kernel if it is simple also.

its not worth doing. Thats based on the current, racey, broken quota code
not the -ac quota code we need

> there rather than having a lot of different ongoing backroom operations to add
> the functionality.

For the base kernel they need to work properly. Vendors may be less picky.
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