Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:50:31 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822 |
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:44:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> Which part of the above constitutes a creation of char device node? > > > > Wait a minute... Are you saying that something in userland ends up > > seeing that sucker, noticing .../dev and proceeding to do mknod? > > Sure, it does mkod, as the kernel says it should. But that does not > cause any real problem.
"It" being udev, presumably?
What a mess... How does drivers/usb/core/devio.c avoid essentially the same problem?
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