Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

Al Viro
2008-11-30T13:50:43Z

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:44:24PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

> >> Which part of the above constitutes a creation of char device node?
> >
> > Wait a minute... Are you saying that something in userland ends up
> > seeing that sucker, noticing .../dev and proceeding to do mknod?
>
> Sure, it does mkod, as the kernel says it should. But that does not
> cause any real problem.

"It" being udev, presumably?

What a mess... How does drivers/usb/core/devio.c avoid essentially the same
problem?