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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:41:13 -0600
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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] devfs cleanups for 2.5.29
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Roman Zippel writes:
> 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.

No, it's not. Look more closely.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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