On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:52:17 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Right, but that makes it useless for things which want to open it > > despite having no permission on the file. > > For my purposes, if I'm going to emulate pioctl() in userspace, I also need to > be able to open device files that don't have drivers available, and when you > do open a dev file in this manner, it must _not_ call the ->open() routine of > the device driver So how are you going to make that work in conjunction with the in progress work on doing stuff like revoke(), and with module reference counting ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
