Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755622AbYK3Nun (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:50:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751467AbYK3Nue (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:50:34 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:45456 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751425AbYK3Nud (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:50:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:50:31 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Kay Sievers Cc: Linus Torvalds , gregkh@suse.de, petero2@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822 Message-ID: <20081130135031.GB28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20081130121909.GV28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20081130132118.GY28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20081130133229.GZ28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20081130134048.GA28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 19 On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:44:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> Which part of the above constitutes a creation of char device node? > > > > Wait a minute... Are you saying that something in userland ends up > > seeing that sucker, noticing .../dev and proceeding to do mknod? > > Sure, it does mkod, as the kernel says it should. But that does not > cause any real problem. "It" being udev, presumably? What a mess... How does drivers/usb/core/devio.c avoid essentially the same problem? -- 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/