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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:35:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] devfs cleanups for 2.5.29
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Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:

> With your
> "fixups", those drivers will break when "devfs=only" is passed in.

That feature is broken by design already anyway. devfs has absolutely no
business managing that device pointer. You're duplicating code and it only
makes it harder to properly protect it. As far as I can see it's still
broken wrt to module unloading.

bye, Roman

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