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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
