Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-18 Thread Brian Wheeler
> > On Thursday 17 May 2001 22:00, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > Consider an ID consisting of: > > * vendor > > * model > > Vendor and model ids are available for PCI and USB devices, but I think you > can not assume that all busses have them and you dont

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Wheeler
If device info/controls are tied to subdirectory entries, it would be nice to be able to get a device's capabilities via existance checking... I.E. '-e /dev/disk0/eject' could check of the device is ejectable. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Wheeler
HI While I find your ideas intriguing, I'd like to offer a friendly suggestion: You're never going to convince anyone on LKML unless you do the following things: * Describe your idea in detail, including algorithms, pseudo code, pictures, or whatever. Vague hand-wavey stuff won't do it.