From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262116AbTLIAoL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:44:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262118AbTLIAoL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:44:11 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:10675 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262116AbTLIAoJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:44:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:42:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Sven-Haegar Koch Cc: Andreas Jellinghaus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Message-ID: <20031209004225.GA31760@kroah.com> References: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> <20031208154256.GV19856@holomorphy.com> <20031208233428.GA31370@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:31:00AM +0100, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote: > > > > After ignoring .devfsd we are left with 70 devices missing: > > > - 15 floppy devices > > > > You have 15 floppy devices connected to your box? All floppy devices > > should show up in /sys/block. > > perhaps he means fd0u1440, fd0u1600 and friends > > ls /dev/fd0u*|wc -l -> 15 Yeah, but are those devices actually connected all at once? Yeah, I know the way of talking to the same device in different manners... Hm, udev can now do symlinks, does it also need to handle multiple minors for floppy devices? I'll have to look into how the kernel handles the different block minors for floppy devices. thanks, greg k-h