Re: 2.6.0-test1 devfs question

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 06:17:14 EST


On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 19:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is the problem simply that the device has moved from /dev/md1 to /dev/md/1?
> If so, is this change sufficient?

The problem seems to be "user selected devfs"

> diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~a drivers/md/md.c
> --- 25/drivers/md/md.c~a 2003-07-26 11:24:58.000000000 -0700
> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c 2003-07-26 11:25:15.000000000 -0700
> @@ -3505,7 +3505,7 @@ int __init md_init(void)
> for (minor=0; minor < MAX_MD_DEVS; ++minor) {
> devfs_mk_bdev(MKDEV(MAJOR_NR, minor),
> S_IFBLK|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,
> - "md/%d", minor);
> + "md%d", minor);

But 2.4 is the same as 2.5 ...

   devfs_handle = devfs_mk_dir (NULL, "md", NULL);
        /* we don't use devfs_register_series because we want to fill
md_hd_str
        for (minor=0; minor < MAX_MD_DEVS; ++minor) {
                char devname[128];
                sprintf (devname, "%u", minor);

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