Some sysfs attrs have vanished!

[DervishD <udev@dervishd.net>]

    Hi all :)

    I don't know if I screwed anything while compiling my 2.6.20.14
kernel, and I'm not sure how much time has this been happening because I
removed one of the units and so I removed some bits from my rules file,
so please tell me if I'm doing wrong anything obvious.

    Well, here is the story: I have two DVD recorders, and until I
removed one of them (long story) I had my udev.rules configured to
assign names to them based on $ATTRS{model}. And it worked, I swear. One
of them reports something like "HL-DT-ST" and the other said
"DUW1616/ARR", or something very similar.

    Today I've put again the second recorder and I did run "udevinfo" to
get the model strings (I didn't remember them exactly) and to my
surprise, there's no ATTRS{model}!

    This is what I get:

    $ udevinfo -a -n /dev/hdc

Udevinfo starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
and the attributes from one single parent device.

  looking at device '/block/hdc':
    KERNEL="hdc"
    SUBSYSTEM="block"
    DRIVER=""
    ATTR{stat}="       0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0"
    ATTR{size}="8388604"
    ATTR{removable}="1"
    ATTR{range}="1"
    ATTR{dev}="22:0"

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.1/ide1/1.0':
    KERNELS="1.0"
    SUBSYSTEMS="ide"
    DRIVERS="ide-cdrom"
    ATTRS{modalias}="ide:m-cdrom"
    ATTRS{drivename}="hdc"
    ATTRS{media}="cdrom"

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.1/ide1':
    KERNELS="ide1"
    SUBSYSTEMS=""
    DRIVERS=""

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.1':
    KERNELS="0000:00:0f.1"
    SUBSYSTEMS="pci"
    DRIVERS="VIA_IDE"
    ATTRS{msi_bus}=""
    ATTRS{broken_parity_status}="0"
    ATTRS{modalias}="pci:v00001106d00000571sv0000147Bsd00001416bc01sc01i8a"
    ATTRS{local_cpus}="1"
    ATTRS{irq}="0"
    ATTRS{class}="0x01018a"
    ATTRS{subsystem_device}="0x1416"
    ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}="0x147b"
    ATTRS{device}="0x0571"
    ATTRS{vendor}="0x1106"

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00':
    KERNELS="pci0000:00"
    SUBSYSTEMS=""
    DRIVERS=""

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    Exactly the same happens to the other IDE devices, they have stopped
telling $ATTRS{model}, and they did!. Is there anything in the kernel
that I've turned off to suffer this problem? As far as I know, I haven't
removed anything from my configuration in the last three kernel updates,
if I recall correctly. I suspect I'm doing something very obvious and
stupid here but I'm missing the point.

    Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm a bit lost O:) Thanks a lot
in advance.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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