devfs patch v12 available

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:36:24 +1100


Hi, all. Version 12 of my devfs patch is now available from:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/kernel-patches.html

This is against 2.1.79. Highlights of this release:

- added inode check to <devfs_fill_file> function

- improved devfs support when mounting from devfs

- added call to <<release>> operation when removing swap areas on
devfs devices

- increased NR_SUPER to 128 to support large numbers of devfs mounts
(for chroot(2) gaols)

- fixed bug in SCSI disc support: was generating incorrect minors if
SCSI ID's did not start at 0 and increase by 1

- support symlink traversal when mounting root

Regards,

Richard....