From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:35:42 +0000 Subject: Re: udevinfo patch Message-Id: <20040326062129.GA8855@in.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <20040323215101.GA30721@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040323215101.GA30721@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:47:35AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:26:46AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:51:01PM -0800, Daniel Stekloff wrote: > > > > > >> > > >>Hi Greg, > > >> > > >>I think this is what you want for udevinfo. Patched against the latest BK > > >>tree. I tested it and it seemed to work. > > > > It seems to have a bug: > > > > carldani@4100xcdt:~/work/udev-023-orig> ./udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/ > > > > udevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the > > [...] > > to match the device for which the node will be created. > > > > device '/sys/block' has major:minor 1:9 > > looking at class device '/sys/block': > > couldn't open class device directory > > > > > > How can /sys/block have a major/minor number which changes everytime I > > recompile udevinfo? > > It's the attribute value read from the last sysfs device. > > > > Thanks, I've applied this. > > > > Could you also apply the attached patch to clean up a bit? > > No, it breaks the net device handling. I think we should change > libsysfs instead, not to return a class device for '/block', if > we want to fix it. /sys/block is considered a sysfs "class" and not a class_device. So, going by udevinfo's help, -p expects path to a class_device and _not_ a class itself and hence option /sys/block with -p is not a valid query. Kay? Thanks, Ananth ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel