The code supports read access to all media types that CD/DVD type drives
can recognize including DVD-RAM and BD- drives as well as harddisc partions
and vnd devices. UDF versions upto the latest 2.60 are to be supported
though due to lack of test media version 2.50 and 2.60 are not implemented
yet though easy to add. Both open and closed media are supported.
Write access is planned and in preparation. To facilitate this some hooks
are present in the code that are not strictly needed in a read-only
implementation but which allow writing to be added more easily.
Implemented and tested media types are CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW,
DVD-ROM, DVD*R, DVD*RW, DVD+MRW but the same code can also read DVD-RAM,
HD-DVD and BluRay discs. Also vnd devices have been tested with several
sector sizes.
Discs created and written by UDFclient, Nero's InCD and Roxio's
DirectCD/Drag2Disc read fine.
and tweak lkminit_*.c (where applicable) to call them, and to call
sysctl_teardown() when being unloaded.
This consists of (1) making setup functions not be static when being
compiled as lkms (change to sys/sysctl.h), (2) making prototypes
visible for the various setup functions in header files (changes to
various header files), and (3) making simple "load" and "unload"
functions in the actual lkminit stuff.
linux_sysctl.c also needs its root exposed (ie, made not static) for
this (when built as an lkm).
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
