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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > > > This patch contains the following cleanups: > > > > - move the help text to the right option > > > > - replace some #ifdef's in capi.c with dummy functions in capifs.h > > > > - use CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS_BOOL in one place in capi.c > > > > > > I actually still like to see capifs removed completely. It is not really > > > needed if you gonna use udev. The only thing that it is doing, is to set > > > the correct permissions and make sure that the device nodes are created. > > > And with a 2.6 kernel this can be all done by udev. > > > > udev is not mandatory. > > > > Static /dev is still 100% supported and working fine. > > and if you have static /dev then you can use mknod and chown by > yourself. If you use CAPI on any newer distribution with the latest 2.6 > kernel you will have udev anyway and so no static /dev at all. Sorry for my ignorance, but I think capifs was introduced to have own dynamic 'files' like pts and not to have the restrictions of character devices and the needed major/minor numbers. So changing this to character device nodes may break applications out there. Armin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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