Re: inconsistent renaming of devices

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:33:51AM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> maybe this one has been reported before...
> I am not sure if I searched for the right keywords...
> 
> I see the following behaviour in an unpatched udev-008 on kernel
> 2.6.0-test11:
> 
> when inserting my memory stick the rule I defined fires, but the devices
> I get are somehow inconsistent.
> 
> the rule:
> LABEL, BUS="scsi", vendor="Prolific", NAME="stick%n"
> 
> the result (one case)
> # ll /udev/
> total 0
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   0 Dec 17 08:32 sda
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   1 Dec 17 08:32 sda1
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   2 Dec 17 08:32 sda2
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   3 Dec 17 08:32 sda3
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   4 Dec 17 08:32 stick4
> 
> another case:
> # ll /udev/
> total 0
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   0 Dec 17 08:32 sda
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   1 Dec 17 08:32 sda1
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   2 Dec 17 08:32 sda2
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   3 Dec 17 08:32 stick3
> brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       8,   4 Dec 17 08:32 stick4
> 
> see, what I mean?
> 
> tell me if you need more input (logfiles, etc)

Yeah, this is an issue of userspace beating the kernel.  I'll be working
on fixing this up in udev today.  Sorry about that.

greg k-h


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