Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

[Alan Cox]

> For _devices_, though?  I don't expect my mouse to work if gpm and xfree
> both try to consume device events from the same filp.  Heck, it doesn't
> even work when they try to consume events from the same inode :-)  I think
> this is a reasonable restriction for the class of devices in question.

Not really. Think about basic things like full duplex audio with two threads

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