Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:35:47 +0200 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix capi devicenames |
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:50:24PM +0200, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote: [...] > The only setup that could get broken by this is the setup that uses udev > to handle the devices and gives the nodes different access rights or > something. > > And that already happened by the time the rules used to create the capi > devices got removed from udev and it was right to remove them from udev > IMO. [...] > capifs is already deprecated and scheduled for removal soon because udev > is able to replace its functionality and fedora has a patch in srpm that > removes the capifs load from capiinit. > > Userspace expects the capifs device nodes. [...]
So if I understand correctly, capifs was deprecated and is soon be removed because udev was able to replace it given a set of rules, then after the deprecation was done the rules were deliberately removed from udev. And that's supposed to be a kernel issue?
Sounds... typical, actually.
OG.
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