From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ludovic Drolez <ludovic.drolez@linbox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0t7: /proc/partitions names not devfs like...
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:16:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017091634.B22492@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F8EC144.7000005@linbox.com>; from ludovic.drolez@linbox.com on Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:03:16PM +0200
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:03:16PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I'm using devfs on a small 2.6.0t7 kernel and I have software which relies on
> the exactitude of /proc/partitions.
> The problem is that in /proc/partition I have something like
>
> 3 0 19925880 hda
> 3 1 19920568 hda1
>
> where a 2.4.x kernel gave me:
>
> 3 0 19925880 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> 3 1 19920568 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
>
> I've enabled the following options:
>
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
>
> Any idea, why this has changed ?
Yes, the 2.4 devfs behaviour was buggy - it was different from the
non-devfs output. Note that you can't rely on the names in /proc/partitions
anyway as the system administrator is free to name the block devices however
he wants.
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