On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:08:11PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> After upgrading from 2.5.67-bk9 to 2.5.68-bk1 I have found that the devfs
> names for IDE disks have changed. Instead of the traditional
> 2.4-compatible /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1, /dev/hda1 has now
> become /dev/hda/disc0/part1.
>
> What's really weird is that /dev/hda is now a directory. That's going to
> break a lot of software!
Hey, that wasn't intentation. In fact it's a stupid brown-paperbag bug
only hidden by mount-by-label :)
Here's the fix:
--- 1.1/fs/partitions/devfs.c Sat Apr 19 20:57:36 2003
+++ edited/fs/partitions/devfs.c Mon Apr 21 17:11:33 2003
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
{
char dirname[64], symlink[16];
- if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0')
+ if (disk->devfs_name[0] == '\0')
sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "%s/disc%d", disk->disk_name,
disk->first_minor >> disk->minor_shift);
-
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