Re: devfs unable to handle permission: 2.4.17-pre[4,5] /ALSA-0.9.0beta[9,10]

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 22:08:23 EST


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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