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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:31:38 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:55:22PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> How about a facility to create the character (or block?) special file
> node right there in the driverfs directory?  Optional of course.

No, Linus has stated that this is not ok to do.  See the lkml archives
for the whole discussion about this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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