From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268527AbUJVXHe (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:07:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268295AbUJVXEo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:04:44 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:47519 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268278AbUJVXC4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:02:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:02:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ari Pollak Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev doesn't add a device for one of my partitions under 2.6.9 Message-ID: <20041022230209.GA26748@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:39:01PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently running kernel 2.6.9 with udev 0.034 and Debian's hotplug > 0.0.20040329-15. I'm assuming this is a device driver bug and not a udev > or hotplug bug because I'm pretty sure this worked fine in 2.6.8.1. > My only hard drive on my IBM Thinkpad T41 has a primary partition, a > logical partition, and an extended partition (hda1, hda2, and hda5). > Both /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 show up as devices, but /dev/hda5 doesn't > show up at all. If I create the /dev/hda5 manually with mknod, accessing > it works fine. Below is the IDE-related output from dmesg on system > startup, the output from lspci, and my kernel config. Does /sys/block/hda/ show partition the partition you are missing? If not, there's no way that udev could know to create it. thanks, greg k-h