had a 2.1 tag, thus sending these two changes into the 2.1 branch instead
of -current. Argh. I may bring these changes into the 2.1 anyway (they're
benign there) so I'm not going to admin them out of 2.1 for the time
being.
Claim the major numbers (before sombedoy else jumps in again and
claims the slots for his foocd driver :-), install all the hooks that
are required.
While i've been at this, i've cleaned up some of the routines at the
end of i386/conf.c; all the importers of the latest CDROM drivers
forgot to fill in the appropriate information. The `ata' driver
(vapourware?) does only occupy a slot in the bdevsw[] array, btw.
The actual import of the code does require a minor change in the SCSI
subsystem, and i want to have this reviewed by Peter first, so it will
be deferred for some days. The driver is already working for me
though.
Submitted by: akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp (Shunsuke Akiyama)
notebooks where a powerfail condition (external power drop; battery
state low) is signalled by an NMI. Makes it beep instead of panicing.
Reviewed by: davidg
LINT talks about about 2.1. I changed that to 2.0.5,
and clarified why certain devices need "at scbus?".
There is still a crazy "PCVT=210" which shouldn't be there,
but corrected comment as it is needed for 2.0.5.
- option DODUMP no longer exists (remove all references to it).
- directive `swap on' is now a no-op (don't bother documenting it; remove
comment to match code).
- directive `dumps on' still works (restore code to match comment; deprecate
it in comment).
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp, and me
Submitted by: Bruce Evans
require specific partitions be mentioned in the kernel config
file ("swap on foo" is now obsolete).
From Poul-Henning:
The visible effect is this:
As default, unless
options "NSWAPDEV=23"
is in your config, you will have four swap-devices.
You can swapon(2) any block device you feel like, it doesn't have
to be in the kernel config.
There is a performance/resource win available by getting the NSWAPDEV right
(but only if you have just one swap-device ??), but using that as default
would be too restrictive.
The invisible effect is that:
Swap-handling disappears from the $arch part of the kernel.
It gets a lot simpler (-145 lines) and cleaner.
Reviewed by: John Dyson, David Greenman
Submitted by: Poul-Henning Kamp, with minor changes by me.
The ``flags 1'' in the fdc line is now only needed for owners of an
Insight tape (perhaps there aren't any? Mine is disfunctional). All
other probes are safe wrt. to the motor-control line of floppy disk
drives. Document the flag in LINT finally.
