On Friday 02 April 2010 01:14, Steve Bennett wrote:
> > This treats creation actions as deletions too - it will
> > delete the device node if it exist. This is confusing.
> 
> Possibly. What does delete even mean when the "create" action
> is to not create the device node?

Delete will (try to) delete the node.
Users which created the node by some other mechanism
won't like to find their nodes nuked by mdev.

> > Maybe you should set major = -1 instead?
> 
> That is probably fine too.
> > 
> > And why do you disallow command in this case?
> > It might be useful.
> 
> Possibly. It seemed confusing to me to run a command
> on create/delete of a device node which is just being
> ignored. Can you think of a real use case, or do you
> just like the symmetry of it?

I just don't see why would I want to remove that
possibility - it's doesn't cost anything in terms of code size.

I implemented "!" in current git, please test.
-- 
vda
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