From 67453ec7cf5b56749501832c90144a4f707473ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:59:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix --- Filesystems | 6 ++++-- NEWS | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Filesystems b/Filesystems index 6e147e5..24f0989 100644 --- a/Filesystems +++ b/Filesystems @@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ Homepage: http://owfs.sourceforge.net Description: - OWFS is a method under linux to allow 1-wire devices to appear like - files in a directory. + OWFS uses FUSE to expose all the Dallas 1-wire sensors, iButtons and + memory chips as a filesystem. Devices are dynamically included in + the directory, and properties like temperature are obtained by + reading a file. ============================================================================== Name: FunFS (status: alpha) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 512ccbc..a0de2a8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,36 @@ +What is new in 2.2 + +Userspace changes: + + - Add fuse_file_info structure to file operations, this allows the filesystem + to return a file handle in open() which is passed to read(), write(), flush(), + fsync() and release(). + + - Add source compatibility with 2.1 and 1.4 releases + + - Binary compatibility with 2.1 release is retained + +Kernel changes: + + - Make requests interruptible. This prevents the filesystem to go + into an unbreakable deadlock with itself. + + - Make readpages() synchronous. Asynchronous requests are deadlock + prone, since they cannot be interrupted (see above) + + - Remove shared-writeable mapping support, which could deadlock the + machine + + - Remove INVALIDATE userspace initiated request + + - Update ABI to be independent of sizeof(long), so dual-size archs + don't cause problems + + - Remove /sys/fs/fuse/version. Version checking is now done through + the fuse device + +============================================================================ + What is new in 2.1 * Bug fixes -- 2.30.2