From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] devfs cleanups for 2.5.29
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:41:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207302341.g6UNfDF11136@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207310121470.8911-100000@serv>
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....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 22:54 Greg KH
2002-07-30 22:54 ` Greg KH
2002-07-30 22:55 ` Greg KH
2002-07-30 23:12 ` Richard Gooch
2002-07-30 23:18 ` Greg KH
2002-07-30 23:46 ` Greg KH
2002-07-30 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-30 23:41 ` Richard Gooch [this message]
2002-07-31 0:31 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-31 0:32 ` Richard Gooch
2002-07-31 9:32 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-05 22:12 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-05 22:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-19 0:48 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-19 9:37 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-20 17:00 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-20 17:29 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-21 4:01 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-21 11:22 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-31 20:30 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 9:57 ` Jens Axboe
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