Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:20:05 -0200 (BRST) | | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | | Subject | Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10] |
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi, > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > There are some broken boot scripts (modelled after the long obsolete > > rc.devfs script) > > Which is still included in the kernel tree and at least Mandrake is > currently using it. > There were no signs of deprecation, so people are legally using it. > > > This is not actually a problem for leaf nodes, since the user-space > > created device nodes will still work. It just results in a warning > > message. > > Wrong, these are not just warning messages, the driver API has changed. > > > So, in this case, the device nodes that the user wants to use will > > still be there (created by the boot script) and will work fine. > > Except the dynamic update of device nodes won't happen anymore, so it > affects also all leaf nodes in the directories (e.g. partition entries > won't be created/removed anymore). Events won't be created for these > nodes as well, so configurations depending on this are broken as well.
Richard,
Are the above problems really introduced by the changes ?
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