Re: [2.6 patch] ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS related cleanups

[Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> > > > This patch contains the following cleanups:
> > > > - move the help text to the right option
> > > > - replace some #ifdef's in capi.c with dummy functions in capifs.h
> > > > - use CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS_BOOL in one place in capi.c
> > > 
> > > I actually still like to see capifs removed completely. It is not really
> > > needed if you gonna use udev. The only thing that it is doing, is to set
> > > the correct permissions and make sure that the device nodes are created.
> > > And with a 2.6 kernel this can be all done by udev.
> > 
> > udev is not mandatory.
> > 
> > Static /dev is still 100% supported and working fine.
> 
> and if you have static /dev then you can use mknod and chown by
> yourself. If you use CAPI on any newer distribution with the latest 2.6
> kernel you will have udev anyway and so no static /dev at all.

Sorry for my ignorance, but I think capifs was introduced to have own 
dynamic 'files' like pts and not to have the restrictions of character 
devices and the needed major/minor numbers.

So changing this to character device nodes may break applications
out there.

Armin

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