On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 21:30, Oliver Neukum wrote: > That is not true. Hotplugging changes it. By assigning new devices > to existing device nodes, the kernel _does_ hand out permissions.
Only if you got the design wrong. The kernel should pass hotplug the info to create the device nodes. If you are dealing with a device where a node might be reused, yes you might want to store a generation count and return -EIO if the handle has a mismatched generation count. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
