Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:39:35 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.68-bk1 renames IDE disks, /dev/hda is directory |
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:08:11PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > After upgrading from 2.5.67-bk9 to 2.5.68-bk1 I have found that the devfs > names for IDE disks have changed. Instead of the traditional > 2.4-compatible /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1, /dev/hda1 has now > become /dev/hda/disc0/part1. > > What's really weird is that /dev/hda is now a directory. That's going to > break a lot of software!
Hey, that wasn't intentation. In fact it's a stupid brown-paperbag bug only hidden by mount-by-label :)
Here's the fix:
--- 1.1/fs/partitions/devfs.c Sat Apr 19 20:57:36 2003 +++ edited/fs/partitions/devfs.c Mon Apr 21 17:11:33 2003 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ { char dirname[64], symlink[16]; - if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0') + if (disk->devfs_name[0] == '\0') sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "%s/disc%d", disk->disk_name, disk->first_minor >> disk->minor_shift); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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