On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Peter Rajnoha wrote: > (I'm not counting the very corner use case of > 'dmsetup --addnodeoncreate --verifyudev' which now ends up with a dev node > in /dev that logically returns -ENODEV when accessed instead of zero-sized > device as it was before.) Yes. That facility was provided to assist people having to work with old or incorrect code or misconfigured systems and breaking it in this way shouldn't be a concern. (We could possibly still patch it up to continue to do the best thing after the patchset goes in.) Alasdair
