From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 8/16bit usb minor device number problem
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:17:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927171733.GA15755@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451A4559.80109@ciphirelabs.com>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:03:32PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >This is probably a glibc issue. Can you manually create a device node
> >with a minor of 257?
> >
> >What version of glibc are you using?
>
> ah, ok.
>
> foo:~# mknod 002 c 189 257
> foo:~# ls -l 002
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 1 Sep 27 16:01 002
> foo:~# ldd /bin/mknod
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xa7e9f000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xa7fda000)
> foo:~# dpkg -s libc6
> Package: libc6
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: required
> Section: base
> Installed-Size: 15368
> Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: glibc
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4
>
>
> so latest udev (or at least /dev/bus/usb) and debian sarge is
> not a good combination :(
No, mixing and matching things like that is not a good idea. Try
upgrading the rest of your system if you want to use a newer kernel and
a newer udev.
good luck,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 9:33 8/16bit usb minor device number problem Andreas Jellinghaus
2006-09-27 15:22 ` Greg KH
2006-09-27 16:03 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2006-09-27 17:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
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