On Jan 12 2007 11:32, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:32:11 -0500
>From: Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Cc: Steven Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor
> number 0
>
>Hi,
>
>Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
>file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings.
>However, the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying
>a raw device with minor number 0:
No idea what to say about this... probably:
What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
When: December 2005
Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
O_DIRECT can be used instead
Who: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-`J'
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