From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7k1-0004KT-7T for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:03:05 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7jz-0004IA-HZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:03:03 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7jy-0004H1-0W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:03:02 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JB7jx-0004Gt-EF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:03:01 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7jx-0008OC-0q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:03:01 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7jv-0002sy-Nb; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:03:00 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JB7id-0005Io-7y; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:01:39 +0100 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:01:39 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080105120139.GC20032@thorin> References: <20080103221423.GA6243@example.org> <20080103235459.GA7520@thorin> <200801050231.52190.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801050231.52190.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: "Pascal A. Dupuis" Subject: Re: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:03:04 -0000 On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:31:51AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 00:54, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:14:23PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > this is a copy of debian bug 450709 > > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450709) at > > > debian maintainer's (Robert Millan ) request: > > > > Thanks Pascal. > > > > > But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detecting udev. The > > > routine has_devfs searchs for /dev/.devfsd, which cames from deprecated > > > devfs. Enclosed is a synthetic patch, I compiled and ran it fine on my > > > machine. Could you check ? > > > > The off-by-5 bug is already fixed in CVS. As for the devfs part, I think > > I figured out what you're doing. You setup udev to emulate devfs-style > > devices, right? > > > > I think the right fix for this is not to check for /dev/.udev, but rather > > just probe for devfs-style devices unconditionally. > > > > As it happens there are other ways in which one could have this layout, > > including other /dev implementations such as userdevfs. > > > > What does everyone else think? > > As long as it works fine, no problem. :) Ok, fixed. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)