Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:53:43 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ess maestro, support for hardware volume control |
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Hi Alan.
>> What can happen as I see it is that userspace #2, which wants to >> talk to a particular misc driver, actually ends up talking to a >> different one because the minor gets reassigned between reading >> /proc/misc to find out the number and mknoding and opening the >> device:
> Looks true to me. So get a real misc device assigned for > anything you use 8)
Wasn't the basis for devfs that it would effectively do the mknod'ing for you? Or have I completely misunderstood the situation?
Best wishes from Riley.
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