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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test1 devfs question
Daniele Venzano <webvenza@libero.it> wrote:
>
> There is a bug with devfs and raid, see:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
>
> It's sitting there since 2.5.45, but no one seems interested and I
> don't have the knowledge to fix it by myself (or the time to acquire
> that knowledge).

Unfortunately, raising a bug in bugzilla doesn't actually mean that anyone
is paying any attention to it. You need to keep shouting at people.

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);
}

register_reboot_notifier(&md_notifier);
@@ -3567,7 +3567,7 @@ static __exit void md_exit(void)
int i;
blk_unregister_region(MKDEV(MAJOR_NR,0), MAX_MD_DEVS);
for (i=0; i < MAX_MD_DEVS; i++)
- devfs_remove("md/%d", i);
+ devfs_remove("md%d", i);
devfs_remove("md");

unregister_blkdev(MAJOR_NR,"md");
_

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