On Aug 26 2007 01:08, Rob Landley wrote: >On Friday 24 August 2007 3:36:54 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>Is there _ever_ a time you want the block layer but no block devices? >> >> Well, where do you think your hard disk drivers come from? Definitely >> not from the BLK_DEV menu... > >Now that I look I see that all the devices in this menu (at least in User Mode >Linux) are actually virtual block devices (UBD, loopback, and ramdisk), which >the menu help doesn't indicate.
Nah, BLK_DEV is like MISC_DEV. There's all sort of stuff in it, _not only_ virtual things. FLOPPY comes to mind. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/