Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:22:47 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] / ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10] |
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Hi,
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Two possibilities: > > - the module is trying to register "unknown" twice. The old devfs core > was forgiving about this (although it was always a driver bug to > attempt to create a duplicate). The new core won't let you do that. > Error 17 is EEXIST. Please fix the driver > > - something in user-space created the "unknown" inode before the > driver could create it. This is a configuration bug.
Option 3: Turn a user generated entry into a kernel generated one and return 0. Prepopulating devfs was a valid option so far, you cannot simply change this during a stable kernel release.
bye, Roman
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