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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration
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  Oh, duh. Yes, but the panic seems harsh.


On 10/13/2010 11:22 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>
>> Perhaps you could also fix devfs to not panic when somebody tries to
>> make a device that already exists and just return an error with a
>> diagnostic while you're at it?
> I am not sure if I understand what you mean with this.
> make_dev(9), make_dev_cred(9) and make_dev_credf(9) can't return an
> error code.
>