Re: [2.6 patch] ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS related cleanups

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:44:04PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> Hi Adrian,

Hi Marcel,

> > This patch contains the following cleanups:
> > - move the help text to the right option
> > - replace some #ifdef's in capi.c with dummy functions in capifs.h
> > - use CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS_BOOL in one place in capi.c
> 
> I actually still like to see capifs removed completely. It is not really
> needed if you gonna use udev. The only thing that it is doing, is to set
> the correct permissions and make sure that the device nodes are created.
> And with a 2.6 kernel this can be all done by udev.

udev is not mandatory.

Static /dev is still 100% supported and working fine.

> Regards
> 
> Marcel

cu
Adrian

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