Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:18:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:32:45AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm2/
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I see one small change in behaviour with this kernel.
> > > 
> > > During boot when initializing udev I see 
> > > 
> > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory.
> > > grep: /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory
> > > grep: /proc/ide/sr1/model: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > With previous kernels I only see
> > > 
> > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory.
> > 
> > That is because you have a udev script that is expecting to see ide
> > stuff in proc.  That has now been moved to sysfs, so you should not need
> > to run external scripts to detect ide devices now.  I suggest you go bug
> > your distro, or whoever set up those rules about it.
> 
> err, we don't want to break existing userspace setups, please.

I agree.  Bart, want to put the /proc stuff back, mark it depreciated in
the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as going away in 6 months
or so, and then remove it after that time has gone by?

thanks,

greg k-h