Re: [PATCH] Artop update

[Martin Dalecki]

Franz Sirl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> finally I was able to test the new driver and except for the "return 0 instead 
> of dev-irq" typo all was fine. I added a few minor changes based on the 
> discussion with Vojtech though.

Hey cool!

> The hunk to main.c is needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.

Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...

Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties
to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor
transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced
that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)

Something along the lines of:

cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc                /                       ext3    v2.4,defaults    1 1
/dev/sda1 
         /                       ext3    v2.5,defaults    1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0
# /dev/loop1            /mnt/1                  auto    noauto,owner    0 0
# /dev/loop2            /mnt/2                  auto    noauto,owner    0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /tmp                    tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent
of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to
imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable:

2.5:/dev/sda1 
		/		ext3 ....

Opinnions?

perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root parameter of 
course.

With something along
root=2.5:/dev/sda1,2.4:/dev/hdc
one could be living with... The respecive kernel would just pick the entry
which is matching it's version and be fine.