Re: [OFFTOPIC] udev question

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:18:14PM +0700, John Gatewood Ham wrote:
> linux-hotplug-devel list,
> 
> The listed maintainer of udev requires I use this mailing list
> for questions, even though my problem is with udev and not hotplug.

No, this is not off-topic for this list.  Man, how many times do I have
to say this...

Also, as I said before, see the README file for verification of this
(the bottom of the file...)

> 
>     I upgraded from udev 0.54 to udev 0.58 and had many problems.
> I finally tracked it down to my rules for /dev/null and /dev/zero.
> These rules worked for 0.54:
> 
> SYSFS{dev}="1:3", NAME="null", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
> SYSFS{dev}="1:5", NAME="zero", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"

This would pick up the ram disk devices, that's why it is not a good
idea to use this rule, as you have found out.  You were just lucky
before that it was working.

thanks,

greg k-h


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