From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Norberto Bensa <norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does udev support sw raid0?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:46:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040514184659.GA2401@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040514193913.A27388@infradead.org>
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:39:13PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Do your md raid devices show up in /sys/block? If so, then udev should
> > support them. If not, then udev will not.
>
> md has the chicken-egg problem of having to issue an ioctl on the md device
> to register a gendisk.
Ick.
How did this work with devfs then? The device node would not be present
before the ioctl needed to be called, right? Or did it do the "magic
lookup" mess and just "know" about md devices?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-14 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-14 17:42 does udev support sw raid0? Norberto Bensa
2004-05-14 18:34 ` Greg KH
2004-05-14 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-14 18:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-14 18:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-14 19:10 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-05-14 18:50 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-05-14 18:48 ` Norberto Bensa
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