https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312 --- Comment #23 from Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> 2010-08-05 18:07:50 --- Thanks for the patch Tejun! Larry, could you please try it? Well, my naive opinion rather is that userspace shouldn't be able to access a device node which isn't fully set up. That could have unexpected pitfalls for the process and the kernel as well, couldn't it? Technically, it's also hard to switch BDI under a living device inode - the BDI pointer could be cached in various places... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
