linux-kernel - Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

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Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:31:55 -0400
From:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 7eggert@....de, Dirk <noisyb@....net>
Subject: Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:52:25PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> AFAIK many drivers allow multiple opening of device files. If programs do 
> not
> honor any kind of locking (advisory, O_EXCL) use mandatory locking (DOS 2.0
> compatibility, no problems ;)
> 
> Yea. But see RH managers on its videos, happy about usb sticks being plugged
> and worked, he-he:
> <http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/mov/005_BehindScenes_RHEL4.mov>.
> 
> I've just installed debian-gnu and got all that
> cpufrequtils, powermgmt, acpiutils installed on amd64 laptop
> while i just need:
> ,-
> |modprobe powernow-k8
> |modprobe cpufreq_ondemand
> |echo ondemand >scailing_governor
> `-
> Anyway long, almost 10 years, way to win95 and win98 is never ending ;D

Don't worry, NT4 didn't do that either, you had to wait for windows 2000
before you got a decent kernel and all the power management and hotplug
stuff.

--
Len Sorensen
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