Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:05:42 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Congrats to Richard Gooch |
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Khimenko Victor writes: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Khimenko Victor writes: > > > In <38AB518A.9D61228C@isn.net> Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net) wrote: > > > > I have followed with some interest the saga of devfs. > > > > Complete with radical activists vs. Peter's questions of "what's it > > > > for?" > > > > Richard's patient explanations, and devoted support with timely patches. > > > > There is a big time lesson here for people with a strong belief in their > > > > idea. > > > > Hat's off to Richard Gooch for his persistance and also to hpa. > > > > There are many lessons here for contributors. > > > > Garst > > > > 46-5 > > > > > > What should be done now is to clean up all stuff. Gooch done > > > everything he can himself. Now when devfs is part of official kernel > > > it's time to polish up devfs further. For example situation with ZIP > > > drives does not look right to me. When there are no zip disk in > > > drive and module is not loaded there are no > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 . If I'll put zip disk in > > > driver and will try to mount it ide-floppy will be loaded and > > > mounted. So far so good. The bad thing happens when I try to mount > > > zip disk when there are NO zip disk in drive. Then only > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc is created, not > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 :-(( So even if I'll put zip > > > disk in drive I can not mount it :-(( > > > > > > IMO right way to deal with this situation is to add some "rescan" > > > function in devices. So you can force rescan of attached devices > > > without driver unloading and loading again. This problem exists > > > there without devfs (if I turn my SCSI scanner after system reboot I > > > can not use it -- I need to restart system), devfs just make it more > > > pervasive... > > > > Devfs already has a rescan facility. SCSI and IDE removable drives are > > using this. Someone should look at the IDE subsystem and figure out > > if and why this isn't working. I can't test it myself. > > > How it should be iniciated ? It should be done by devfsd when I try > to access /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 if it's not there > -- what I should write in devfsd config file to do so ?
For now, something like: LOOKUP ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part. MODLOAD <whatever>
should work. I'll think about something more elegant.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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