From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:14:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050428041428.GB9723@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4757e6005042716523af66bae@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:52:39PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> This issue started to appear in around the 2.6.11-mm series.. it
> continues even now with 2.6.12-rc2-mm3.
>
> Attempting to copy an image to a device with a tool like dd, results
> in the device node being overwritten with the data, but the data is
> never sent to the destination drive for instance.
>
> To try to put it more plainly, I have a firmware image I am copying to
> an ipod. Normally the image sends with no issues and the ipod has the
> new firmware.
Is the device "disappearing" and then the udev deletes the device node,
and then dd starts dumping data to a file instead?
Anything in your kernel log when this happens?
Does this happen with 2.6.12-rc3?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 23:52 Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev Joe
2005-04-28 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-28 0:15 ` Joe
2005-04-28 6:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-28 19:38 ` Joe
2005-04-28 4:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-28 4:57 ` Joe
2005-04-28 5:03 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28 5:20 ` Joe
2005-04-28 5:23 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28 5:32 ` Joe
2005-04-28 6:05 ` Greg KH
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