From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] udev question
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:17:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050619051733.GA14471@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506181213560.27030@www.buraphalinux.org>
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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-19 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-18 5:18 [OFFTOPIC] udev question John Gatewood Ham
2005-06-18 8:24 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-18 8:55 ` John Gatewood Ham
2005-06-18 9:11 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-19 5:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
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