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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:50:31 +0000 From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, gregkh@...e.de, petero2@...ia.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822 On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:44:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> Which part of the above constitutes a creation of char device node? > > > > Wait a minute... Are you saying that something in userland ends up > > seeing that sucker, noticing .../dev and proceeding to do mknod? > > Sure, it does mkod, as the kernel says it should. But that does not > cause any real problem. "It" being udev, presumably? What a mess... How does drivers/usb/core/devio.c avoid essentially the same problem? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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