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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: 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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Roman Zippel writes:
> 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.

It was always an error, you just got away with it.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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