Misc floppy stuff
This directory contains miscellaneous floppy related patches, modules
and test programs. Most of these items are quite old, and probably do
not apply to recent kernels any more.
- sched-debug.diff contains a patch
to the scheduler which adds the address of the waitqueues to the data
shown by show_state (obtained by pressing Control-Scroll lock. This
may be useful to debug deadlocks.)
- sync_write.c contains a test program
to open file descriptor 1 in sync mode (sync_write file
command).
- user-printk.tgz contains a printk
device module. Catting caracters to this device sends these caracters
to the console. Unlike /dev/console, they also end up in dmesg and
/proc/kmsg. This is handy to insert comments into the stream of
console messages to be included in a bug report. These comments can
describe the operations being done. This module is recent and has
been tested with kernels 2.0.27 and 2.1.15.
- xdf_kernel.taz was a quick shot at
Xdf support in the kernel, which failed due to a lack of time :(
(Rather oldish, probably no longer works)
- patchtools.tgz are some tools that I
use to make patches, without needing to keep two complete source trees
around.
Alain Knaff