Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:41:13 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] devfs cleanups for 2.5.29 |
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Roman Zippel writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > With your > > "fixups", those drivers will break when "devfs=only" is passed in. > > That feature is broken by design already anyway. devfs has > absolutely no business managing that device pointer. You're > duplicating code and it only makes it harder to properly protect > it. As far as I can see it's still broken wrt to module unloading.
No, it's not. Look more closely.
Regards,
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