Hi,
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> that area is not BKL. It's *!@& damn devfs=only mess and code that does
> direct assignment of ->bd_op before calling blkdev_get(). Until it's solved
> (and the only decent way I see is to remove this misfeature) I'd seriously
> recommend to leave the damn thing as is.
If it prevents a blkdev cleanup, I'd say we disable it at least and if it
should be really needed, we can still fix it later. Is anyone actually
using "devfs=only"? What's the use of it anyway? It only disables the
ability to address a driver by dev_t, I didn't know we want to go that
far.
bye, Roman
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