Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS related cleanups | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:53:48 +0100 |
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Hi Armin,
> > > > > This patch contains the following cleanups: > > > > > - move the help text to the right option > > > > > - replace some #ifdef's in capi.c with dummy functions in capifs.h > > > > > - use CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS_BOOL in one place in capi.c > > > > > > > > I actually still like to see capifs removed completely. It is not really > > > > needed if you gonna use udev. The only thing that it is doing, is to set > > > > the correct permissions and make sure that the device nodes are created. > > > > And with a 2.6 kernel this can be all done by udev. > > > > > > udev is not mandatory. > > > > > > Static /dev is still 100% supported and working fine. > > > > and if you have static /dev then you can use mknod and chown by > > yourself. If you use CAPI on any newer distribution with the latest 2.6 > > kernel you will have udev anyway and so no static /dev at all. > > Sorry for my ignorance, but I think capifs was introduced to have own > dynamic 'files' like pts and not to have the restrictions of character > devices and the needed major/minor numbers.
I am under the impression that it was introduced to change the ownership of the device node the current process. Nothing more, nothing less. Please correct me if I am wrong here.
> So changing this to character device nodes may break applications > out there.
Actually I stopped compiling in and using capifs over a year ago and I never had any problems with it. However you must ensure that the device has been created by udev, nut nowadays this is no problem.
Regards
Marcel
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