Hi,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Two possibilities:
>
> - the module is trying to register "unknown" twice. The old devfs core
>   was forgiving about this (although it was always a driver bug to
>   attempt to create a duplicate). The new core won't let you do that.
>   Error 17 is EEXIST. Please fix the driver
>
> - something in user-space created the "unknown" inode before the
>   driver could create it. This is a configuration bug.

Option 3:
Turn a user generated entry into a kernel generated one and return 0.
Prepopulating devfs was a valid option so far, you cannot simply change
this during a stable kernel release.

bye, Roman


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