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Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:45:16 +0100
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To: "Dmitry A. Fedorov" <D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su>
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Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.
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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:30:38PM +0700, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote:
> I use the following calls:
> 
> sys_mknod
> sys_chown
> sys_umask
> sys_unlink
> 
> for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver
> loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major
> number without devfs and external utility of any kind.
> And there is no risk of intersection with statically assigned major
> numbers, as it is for many others third-party sources.

*yuck*

Do that from modprobe.  "No external utility" is not a virtue, especially
when said utility is a trivial shell script.