Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:17:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Do not try to open device files on mknod |
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:21:48 -0500 Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> When creating device nodes, eCryptfs needs to delay actually opening > the lower persistent file until an application tries to open. Device > handles may not be backed by anything when they first come into > existence.
Generates a reject against your eariler ecryptfs-privileged-kthread-for-lower-file-opens.patch.
It was easy enough to fix, but I'd sugest that you raise and test new patches against at least the other pending ones, rather than against virgin mainline. Because stuff happens...
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