Re: Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:20:32AM -0400, Joe wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:57:46AM -0400, Joe wrote:
> > > It also seems to have trouble recreating the node even when the file
> > > has been deleted
> > 
> > "trouble" how?
> > 
> 
> Apparantly the other partitions of the device (ex. sdb1, sdb3) are
> still considered nodes.  udev also seems to ignore them and hotplug
> does not remove these nodes when the device is unplugged.
> 
> Additionally, when plugged back in, the device won't recreate the
> nodes unless ALL of them are deleted, and even then its a hit and miss
> as to whether it will decide to create them.

Again, usb or firewire?
And if usb, are you _sure_ there are no kernel log messages?  There
should be something there...

Otherwise I have no idea what is happening, and don't know how to find
out either :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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