Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 - udev doesn't work (was: ATI SATA controller not detected) | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:15:37 +0100 |
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On Monday, 30 October 2006 21:04, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:55:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Monday, 30 October 2006 06:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:54:30 -0800 > > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:50:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:00:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether > > > > > > you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it. > > > > > > > > > > > > If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev. > > > > > > > > > > Where "old" is how old exactly ? > > > > > > > > As per the Kconfig help entry, any version of udev released before 2006 > > > > will probably have problems with the new config option. So follow the > > > > text and enable the option if you are running an old version of udev and > > > > you should be fine. > > > > > > <hunts> > > > > > > Greg is referring to CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. I didn't know it existed. > > > If I had known I'd have saved maybe an hour and I perhaps wouldn't have had > > > to revert gregkh-driver-tty-device.patch > > > > > > What mailing list was this discussed and reviewed on? > > > > > > The option should default to "y". > > > > I have this one set, but the kernel apparently fails to find the ATI SATA > > controller: [--snip--] > > This has nothing to do with the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED configuration > option. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE also enabled? If so, > please disable it, some SATA drivers do not like it very much just yet.
Sorry, I was wrong.
The controller _is_ detected and handled properly, but udev is apparently unable to create the special device files for SATA drives/partitions even though CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is set.
The system is SUSE 10.1 (udev-085-30.15).
Greetings, Rafael
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