Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:03:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:03:22 -0500 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:24080 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:03:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 05:02:49 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: To: Richard Gooch cc: Roman Zippel , Rene Rebe , , Subject: Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10] In-Reply-To: <200112090308.fB938N504764@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > 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. Sorry, but this is bullshit. You even included an example script with this "error" (Documentation/filesystems/devfs/rc.devfs). You suddenly change the behaviour of devfs during a stable release in a noncompatible way. Distributions and their users that followed _your_ advice are suddenly fucked up, that's irresponsible. How do you think devfs should be ever taken seriously? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/