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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty_io: Do not register NULL /dev entries on devfs
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402271831080.19454@logos.cnet>; from marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com on Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:36:47PM -0300
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:36:47PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Faced this problem where "/dev/<NULL>x" entries got created while loading
> the cyclades driver with devfs.
> 
> Several drivers do not set driver->devfs_name, so better skip registration
> for those.

No, fix the drivers instead.