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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:22:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /
 ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Two possibilities:
>
> - the module is trying to register "unknown" twice. The old devfs core
>   was forgiving about this (although it was always a driver bug to
>   attempt to create a duplicate). The new core won't let you do that.
>   Error 17 is EEXIST. Please fix the driver
>
> - something in user-space created the "unknown" inode before the
>   driver could create it. This is a configuration bug.

Option 3:
Turn a user generated entry into a kernel generated one and return 0.
Prepopulating devfs was a valid option so far, you cannot simply change
this during a stable kernel release.

bye, Roman

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