Re: change to fs/proc/inode.c breaks ALSA drivers

[Alex Davis]

Thanks for the info Mike. But can anyone answer why
inode.c was changed in the first place??

--- Mike Maravillo <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:24:47PM -0800, Alex Davis
> wrote:
> > 
> > Somewhere between 2.4.15pre6 and 2.4.15 final,
> fs/proc/inode.c
> > was modified. The change causes all the devices
> files that ALSA
> > creates in /proc/asound/dev to have a major and
> minor number of
> > zero. I'm sending a patch to revert the file back
> to what it
> > was in 2.4.15pre5.
> 
> This change present on alsa-driver cvs fixed the
> problem on mine,
> at least.
> 
> diff -urN --exclude=CVS
> alsa-driver-0.5.12/kernel/info.c
> alsa-driver/kernel/info.c
> --- alsa-driver-0.5.12/kernel/info.c Wed Jun 28
> 02:02:03 2000
> +++ alsa-driver/kernel/info.c Wed Nov 21 23:28:35
> 2001
> @@ -897,7 +897,9 @@
>   if (p) {
>    snd_info_device_entry_prepare(p, entry);
>  #ifdef LINUX_2_3
> -  p->proc_fops = &snd_fops;
> +  /* we should not set this - at least * on 2.4.14
> or later it causes
> +     problems! */
> +  /* p->proc_fops = &snd_fops; */
>  #else
>    p->ops = &snd_info_device_inode_operations;
>  #endif
> 
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