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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1 devfs question
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:51:33 +0400
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> Is the problem simply that the device has moved from /dev/md1 to /dev/md/1?
> If so, is this change sufficient?
>
> 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);
>         }

should not such things be done by devfsd in user space? This patch makes it 
even more incompatible with 2.4 ...