Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jul 19 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Peter Osterlund <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > Dave Jones <[e-mail]> writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:46:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > 
> > >  > > o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
> > >  > 	Hopefully this is close as well
> > > 
> > > This has been around for an age, but I haven't seen anything for 2.5
> > > yet. Then again, I dropped off the packet-writing mailing list a long
> > > time ago, so I'm not sure how up to date those folks are.
> > 
> > Patches for 2.5 can be found here:
> > 
> >         http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/
> > 
> > The most recent patch is for 2.5.25. As far as I know, there are only
> > two remaining problems with the 2.5 patch:
> 
> Btw, there is one more potential problem. A new block major number is
> allocated for the pktcdvd device. Is this still forbidden? Are there
> better ways to do this now?

Why a new number? What's wrong with the official 97?

-- 
Jens Axboe