From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 09:11:08 +0200 Message-ID: <58cb370e05050300117f125506@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050430164303.6538f47c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050503031158.GA6917@kroah.com> <20050502201823.0ab02e96.akpm@osdl.org> <20050503044805.GA14750@kroah.com> Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]:2071 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261412AbVECHLL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 03:11:11 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1957386wra for ; Tue, 03 May 2005 00:11:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20050503044805.GA14750@kroah.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, juhl-lkml@dif.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 5/3/05, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:18:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:32:45AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm2/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see one small change in behaviour with this kernel. > > > > > > > > During boot when initializing udev I see > > > > > > > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory. > > > > grep: /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory > > > > grep: /proc/ide/sr1/model: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > With previous kernels I only see > > > > > > > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory. > > > > > > That is because you have a udev script that is expecting to see ide > > > stuff in proc. That has now been moved to sysfs, so you should not need > > > to run external scripts to detect ide devices now. I suggest you go bug > > > your distro, or whoever set up those rules about it. > > > > err, we don't want to break existing userspace setups, please. > > I agree. Bart, want to put the /proc stuff back, mark it depreciated in > the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as going away in 6 months > or so, and then remove it after that time has gone by? /proc/ide stuff was _not_ removed, please see original mail: On 5/1/05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > This machine has no IDE device at all, only SCSI, and the kernel config > has no IDE support either. The config I'm using has not changed in any Thanks, Bartlomiej