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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:23:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050428052335.GA10772@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4757e6005042722207e2b926@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:20:32AM -0400, Joe wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:57:46AM -0400, Joe wrote:
> > > It also seems to have trouble recreating the node even when the file
> > > has been deleted
> > 
> > "trouble" how?
> > 
> 
> Apparantly the other partitions of the device (ex. sdb1, sdb3) are
> still considered nodes.  udev also seems to ignore them and hotplug
> does not remove these nodes when the device is unplugged.
> 
> Additionally, when plugged back in, the device won't recreate the
> nodes unless ALL of them are deleted, and even then its a hit and miss
> as to whether it will decide to create them.

Again, usb or firewire?
And if usb, are you _sure_ there are no kernel log messages?  There
should be something there...

Otherwise I have no idea what is happening, and don't know how to find
out either :(

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27 23:52 Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev Joe
2005-04-28  0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-28  0:15   ` Joe
2005-04-28  6:40     ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-28 19:38       ` Joe
2005-04-28  4:14 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28  4:57   ` Joe
2005-04-28  5:03     ` Greg KH
2005-04-28  5:20       ` Joe
2005-04-28  5:23         ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-28  5:32           ` Joe
2005-04-28  6:05             ` Greg KH

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