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.




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