Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-11 Thread Richard Gooch
PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE CC LIST. BTW: I'm on holidays and won't be replying to email for a while. Richard B. Johnson writes: On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: [SNIPPED] that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a "current" distribution of Linux if

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Richard B. Johnson wrote: According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it. There /is/ no single "current" distribution. *A* current

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Jeff Millar
- Original Message - From: "Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it. Your legal

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Richard B. Johnson wrote: For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander Viro wrote: * Inodes got a new field: i_bdev. Filesystems should not worry about it - just remember to call init_special_inode() when you are initializing device/fifo/socket in-core inode (in foo_read_inode() or in foo_mknod(); all filesystems in the tree are doing it now).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 08:07:38PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it. Cobalt's lawyers seem

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-09 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Alan Cox wrote: Linux isnt at war. War involves large numbers of people making losing decisions that harm each other in a vain attempt to lose last. Linux is about winning. Wonderful!!! (wrt Linux but too better wrt war) Can I cite that? ;-) -- Abramo Bagnara

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-09 Thread Martin Dalecki
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and some of them made it into 2.3.38. [SNIP...] Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away major portions of the work done

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-09 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Richard B. Johnson wrote: For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid because I had to hide it. If anyone in Production Engineering had learned about this, the stuff

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-09 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Richard B. Johnson wrote: For instance, there was a simple new change in the type of an object passed to poll and friends. This just cost me two weeks of unpaid work! Unpaid because I had to hide it. If anyone in Production

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-08 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and some of them made it into 2.3.38. [SNIP...] Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away major portions of the work done over the past few years by software

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-08 Thread Khimenko Victor
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and some of them made it into 2.3.38. [SNIP...] Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away major portions of the work done over the past few years by software engineers who ported their drivers to Linux. Linux will never be accepted as a 'professional' operating system

Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

2000-01-08 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Folks, there are changes underway in block device interface and some of them made it into 2.3.38. [SNIP...] Good grief Charley Brown! You, in a few key-strokes, just blew away major portions