Hi,
Richard Gooch wrote:
> Well, no, it was never a valid option. It was always a bug. In any
> case, the stricter behaviour isn't preventing people from using their
> drivers, it's just issuing a warning. The user-space created device
> node still works.
But the driver doesn't. You changed the driver API in subtle way! You
cannot change the behaviour of devfs_register during 2.4. Do whatever
you want in 2.5, but drivers depend on the current behaviour and devfs
has to be fixed not these drivers.
bye, Roman
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