From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: 2.5.68-bk1 renames IDE disks, /dev/hda is directory
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:04:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424190431.A29056@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0304241257520.2855@marabou.research.att.com>; from proski@gnu.org on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:01:32PM -0400
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:01:32PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Somebody please apply this patch:
>
> http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/latestweek/0150.html
>
> It's still not in 2.5.68-bk5. It's a major headache for everybody who
> tries to use devfs with the current kernel.
Sorry, I sent this to Linus two times but he hasn't applied it yet :P
Linus, could you please apply this patch so all thos poor devfs
users get their disks back?
--- 1.1/fs/partitions/devfs.c Sat Apr 19 20:57:36 2003
+++ edited/fs/partitions/devfs.c Mon Apr 21 17:20:54 2003
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@
{
char dirname[64], symlink[16];
- if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0')
- sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "%s/disc%d", disk->disk_name,
- disk->first_minor >> disk->minor_shift);
-
devfs_mk_dir(disk->devfs_name);
devfs_mk_bdev(MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor),
S_IFBLK|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-21 16:08 2.5.68-bk1 renames IDE disks, /dev/hda is directory Pavel Roskin
2003-04-21 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 16:55 ` Pavel Roskin
2003-04-24 17:01 ` Pavel Roskin
2003-04-24 17:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-04-24 17:56 ` Pavel Roskin
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