Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:13:29 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822 |
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:57:14PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > "It" being udev, presumably? > > Yes, udev, mdev, and a few other tools people use to populate /dev > from the kernel supplied device information. > > > What a mess... How does drivers/usb/core/devio.c avoid essentially the same > > problem? > > It's a special case, where two "struct device" have the same dev_t, > but they both point to and handle the same device, so it's fine. The > usb_device class is deprecated, no recent distro uses it, and will be > removed some day.
Would that happened to udev as well... Yeah, I know, but one can dream ;-/
Bloody wonderful. So we have * userland-exposed layout of directory trees created by pktcdvd * uevent mess generated by device_create() and *also* userland-exposed
So we need to preserve the layout, with the easiest way probably being "add one more ktype and use kobject_init_and_add() instead of that device_create()". Sigh...
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