From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:17:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] udev question Message-Id: <20050619051733.GA14471@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&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