Re: Feature/Bug? udev/hotplug creates device nodes with strange

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 15:18 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Is the following a bug or feature: If I have the option
> 	all_partitions
> set in my local rules.d file, all the device nodes for all partitions
> are created, but for those which are *NOT* physically available, the
> minor of the last available is used:
> 
> Examples: I have an sdcard reader which I NAME /dev/sdcardX, and the
> card has only one partition. But the created devices look like:
> brw-rw----  1 root root 8, 0 2005-04-10 14:58 /dev/sdcard
> brw-rw----  1 root root 8, 1 2005-04-10 14:58 /dev/sdcard1
> brw-rw----  1 root root 8, 1 2005-04-10 14:58 /dev/sdcard2
> brw-rw----  1 root root 8, 1 2005-04-10 14:58 /dev/sdcard3

This looks broken.

> Here it is not really a problem, but it really hit me when I was using a
> new hard disk which did NOT contain already a partition table (so a bit
> like a floppy). So, I got minor 0 (!!!) for all /dev/sdbN (ie the
> partitions). I (stupid me) didn't check, made mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 and
> voilà, now I have a floppy instead of a external firewire harddisk with
> a normal partition table. Grmmm.
> 
> So my question: Is this a feature or a bug?

Looks like a bug, but I have no idea, how this can happen.
What version of udev do you use?

Thanks,
Kay



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