Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

Al Viro
2008-11-30T14:13:43Z

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...