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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tweak node unlink handling
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:17:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040402221714.GB12204@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040402220452.GA17866@vrfy.org>

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:04:52AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Based on a patch from Olaf Hering we remove the node now only if the
> requested dev_t is different from the already existing node, so any
> run of udevstart should preserve the inode number of the node file.
> 
> syslog while the right node is already there:
>   creating device node '/udev/hda'
>   make_node: preserve file '/udev/hda', cause it has correct dev_t
>   make_node: chmod(/udev/hda, 060600)
> 
> syslog for wrong file already there:
>   creating device node '/udev/hda'
>   make_node: already present file '/udev/hda' unlinked
>   make_node: chmod(/udev/hda, 060600)
> 
> syslog for directory with same name already there:
>   creating device node '/udev/hda'
>   make_node: unlink(/udev/hda) failed with error '21'

Nice, thanks for cleaning up the patch and getting it to apply.

greg k-h


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2004-04-02 22:04 [PATCH] tweak node unlink handling Kay Sievers
2004-04-02 22:17 ` Greg KH [this message]

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