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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:39:44 +0400
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: "[PATCH] devfs: switch over ubd to ->devfs_name" breaks ubd/sysfs
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Hello!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:34:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:30:39PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > fake major is easy, it allows you to register ubd device on two majors.
> > This is useful e.g. for installing distros inside of UML.
> > Distro installers are tend to look for IDE disk on major 3, for example.
> > Then if you boot with ubd=3, installer will find the disk ;)
> Not that I would argue in favour of using devfs, but to make this fake
> major stuff useful with devfs you'd have to use the devfs entries of
> the faked devices.  So instead of the ubd_fake devfs names you'd

There is separate option for this. Though it should be fixed, it seems.

But mind you, installers I've seen do not use devfs.

> better add a string boot option that'll get set into ->devfs_name for
> those.

There is. It is called "fakeide" ;)

This one should be fixed it seems.

Bye,
    Oleg