Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up...

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 15:01:06 EST


On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Doug Ledford wrote:

> in scsi_module.c works, but is too ugly to live (and totally defeats the
> purpose of the new module loading code anyway). Oh, and all the high

There is a purpose? Seriously, "no use of ones object during init" is
WRONG. Rusty, remember I've told you that block devices need to be
able to open() during init? That's what it is.

We _might_ eventually kludge around that, but IMO the ->live checks on
the init side are just plain wrong.

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