From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:34 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:4619 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:18 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Oliver Xymoron , Alexander Viro Subject: Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:14:30 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052122143002.06233@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 21 May 2001 19:16, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > What I'd like to see: > > - An interface for registering an array of related devices (almost > always two: raw and ctl) and their legacy device numbers with a > single userspace callout that does whatever /dev/ creation needs to > be done. Thus, naming and permissions live in user space. No "device > node is also a directory" weirdness... Could you be specific about what is weird about it? > ...which is overkill in the vast majority of cases. -- Daniel