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On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:05:59 +0200
Rafał Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have changed static /dev to udev on my machine. It has 
> a lot of RAM (94MB) so I was expecting that udev will not make 
> things worse. Unfortunately udev isn't noticing that new mtd 
> device was born.

<tap, tap>  Is this thing turned on?

> I was suspecting that this is my fault, but 
> udev's /dev is populated and:
> UEVENT[1185991604.930847] add@/module/mtdcore
> UEVENT[1185991604.969089] add@/module/mtdpart
> UEVENT[1185991605.005954] add@/module/block2mtd
> UEVENT[1185991647.726551] add@/module/mtdsuper
> UEVENT[1185991647.783396] add@/module/jffs2
> UEVENT[1185991647.801242] add@/slab/jffs2_i
> UDEV  [1185991647.815670] add@/slab/jffs2_i
> UEVENT[1185991647.827608] add@/slab/:0000072
> UDEV  [1185991647.842338] add@/slab/:0000072
> I don't see nothing about new device.
> 
> Is this situation known? Or this is 2.6.23-rc1-git3 regression? 
> Or is my udev misconfigured?
> 

Did 2.6.22 work OK with the same setup?  If so, yes, it's a regression!