On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While documenting the procfs interface (more of that later), I came
> across proc_mknod() which is supposed to be used to create devices in
> the procfs. IMHO it should therefore check if the mode parameter
> contains S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR.
Why? All callers of proc_mknod() are in the kernel and they should
know better. I could understand
if (....)
BUG();
but silently doing nothing is really odd.
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