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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 21:37:58 +0100
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] 
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Hi,

Richard Gooch wrote:

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

devfs_mk_dir returns an error now, so the driver won't be able to make
new dev nodes available. So far it was legal to manually create a
directory under devfs, now it's suddenly an error.

bye, Roman
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