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From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: John Mesmon <jmesmon@gmail.com>,
	LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm fails when /proc/devices contains "-1 smblk"
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:31:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332005463.13726.2.camel@maxim-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120317161220.GA12111@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:12 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: 
> > Dne 16.3.2012 07:28, John Mesmon napsal(a):
> > > Block devices:
> > >  -1 smblk
> 
> That's outside the range of valid major numbers and surely shouldn't be getting
> exposed to userspace in /proc/devices.
> 
> static struct mtd_blktrans_ops sm_ftl_ops = {
>         .name           = "smblk",
>         .major          = -1,
> 
> Why's -1 being used?
> 
> Alasdair

Woops. I accidentally assigned it 4096 major.
I probably thought that it will get me dynamic major number, sorry!
Will fix soon!

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-17 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16  6:28 [linux-lvm] lvm fails when /proc/devices contains "-1 smblk" John Mesmon
2012-03-17  9:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-03-17 16:12   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-03-17 17:31     ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2012-03-17 20:51       ` Zdenek Kabelac

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