From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:31:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020921033137.GA26017@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D8BDF9A.305@pacbell.net>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:55:22PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
>
> How about a facility to create the character (or block?) special file
> node right there in the driverfs directory? Optional of course.
No, Linus has stated that this is not ok to do. See the lkml archives
for the whole discussion about this.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-21 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 7:50 2.5.26 hotplug failure Duncan Sands
2002-07-18 18:36 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 19:07 ` Duncan Sands
2002-09-15 21:53 ` Duncan Sands
2002-09-18 6:52 ` Greg KH
2002-09-18 7:15 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Brad Hards
2002-09-18 16:55 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 7:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 7:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 7:48 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 7:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19 16:49 ` Greg KH
2002-09-19 20:56 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-19 23:06 ` Greg KH
2002-09-20 20:42 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2002-09-20 23:11 ` Greg KH
2002-09-21 2:55 ` David Brownell
2002-09-21 3:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-09-21 3:58 ` David Brownell
2002-09-21 5:48 ` Greg KH
2002-09-22 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-24 18:26 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-24 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-24 19:29 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 22:37 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-20 23:22 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-20 23:36 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2002-09-21 0:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-21 0:25 ` Brad Hards
2002-09-21 2:36 ` David Brownell
2002-09-20 23:46 ` Patrick Mochel
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