Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5]

[Richard Gooch]

Roman Zippel writes:
> 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.

Tell me how the driver no longer works. I repeat: you now get a
warning. You can still use the driver.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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