Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:17:33 +0100 | 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,
Richard Gooch wrote:
> Well, no, it was never a valid option. It was always a bug. In any > case, the stricter behaviour isn't preventing people from using their > drivers, it's just issuing a warning. The user-space created device > node still works.
But the driver doesn't. You changed the driver API in subtle way! You cannot change the behaviour of devfs_register during 2.4. Do whatever you want in 2.5, but drivers depend on the current behaviour and devfs has to be fixed not these drivers.
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