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On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 20:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Greg KH wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> >>Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> >>>On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 15:05, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> >>>OK, the script has been rewritten to use sysfs now. Please try it |
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> >>Doesn't sysfs only exist in 2.6 kernels? |
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> > Yes, and that is a problem why? :) |
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> It is definately not a problem for me, but there are a lot of users out there |
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> who are still using 2.4 kernels. Any yes, I do understand that you were making a |
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> joke :) |
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Actually, by the time this code is actually widely used for anything, |
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2.4 will probably be largely phased out. If supporting 2.4 is a pain |
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(ie. lack of sysfs), we will not support it. BTW, this script will only |
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be used on liveCDs, so users are fine to use 2.4 kernels after the |
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install. I also don't want to rely on tools like fdisk/parted because |
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they are not available for all arches. Therefore, I'd like to do |
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detection relying only on the kernel, which generally means sysfs and/or |
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system calls. |
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Nathaniel |
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Nathaniel |
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