Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:01:01 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: usability of device nodes with devfs |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:42:05PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Hi, > > is it a requirement that nodes created with devfs can be opened > successfully from the moment the device is registered?
For 2.4 which has a direct connection from devfs entries to file operations this is indeed a requirement. For 2.5 devfs is merely a way to perform mknod from kernelspace so there is no such requirement. Just still have to be setup for I/O when calling register_chardev/add_disk, though.
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