Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:40:48AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	There have been some devfs clean ups in the stock kernels
> since 2.5.63, so here is a patch so that people have a version
> that applies cleanly:

A bunch of comments:

 - your docs mention devfs_only() buts it's gone for good now
 - you removed the last users of devfs_alloc_devnum()/devfs_dealloc_devnum(),
   please remove the functionality aswell (not exported anyway)
 - is the conditional call to init_devfs_fs() in devfs_decode() really
   nessecary?  I think one explicit call to it in the early boot
   process would be much better.  If you don't like that at least
   mark it unlikely()
 - why do you raise the capablities in devfs_register() and
   devfs_mk_symlink() (but not devfs_mk_dir()!).  I think any driver
   code actually calling that must run with raised privilegues already.
 - I think renaming base.c to interf{,ace}.c is a good idea.  It's
   more descriptive and will make the diff a lot easier to read.