From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:12:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:12:20 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:15972 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:12:06 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= To: Richard Gooch , andrew may Subject: Re: 2.4.17pre2: devfs: devfs_mk_dir(printers): could not append to dir: dffe45c0 "", err: -17 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:10:30 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Adam Schrotenboer , Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011201180940.B21185@ecam.san.rr.com> <200112021847.fB2IlmZ11175@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> In-Reply-To: <200112021847.fB2IlmZ11175@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <-snip-> > This appears reasonable. However, if they call this initialisation > code twice, it's a bug. I found the reason for these messages. It has a boot-script source. Mandrake stores the attributes of device nodes in /lib/dev-state. This directory is copied into /dev directly before devfsd is started. If there is a device file in /lib/dev-state it is created in /dev even before the driver is loaded. When the driver is loaded it tries again to create the node and the message appears. Thanks for your suggestions and remarks. greetings Christian