Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 - udev doesn't work (was: ATI SATA controller not detected)

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-30T20:17:12Z

On Monday, 30 October 2006 21:04, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:55:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Monday, 30 October 2006 06:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:54:30 -0800
> > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:50:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:00:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether
> > > > > > you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where "old" is how old exactly ?
> > > >
> > > > As per the Kconfig help entry, any version of udev released before 2006
> > > > will probably have problems with the new config option. So follow the
> > > > text and enable the option if you are running an old version of udev and
> > > > you should be fine.
> > >
> > > <hunts>
> > >
> > > Greg is referring to CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. I didn't know it existed.
> > > If I had known I'd have saved maybe an hour and I perhaps wouldn't have had
> > > to revert gregkh-driver-tty-device.patch
> > >
> > > What mailing list was this discussed and reviewed on?
> > >
> > > The option should default to "y".
> >
> > I have this one set, but the kernel apparently fails to find the ATI SATA
> > controller:
[--snip--]
>
> This has nothing to do with the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED configuration
> option. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE also enabled? If so,
> please disable it, some SATA drivers do not like it very much just yet.

Sorry, I was wrong.

The controller _is_ detected and handled properly, but udev is apparently
unable to create the special device files for SATA drives/partitions even
though CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is set.

The system is SUSE 10.1 (udev-085-30.15).

Greetings,
Rafael

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