2002-09-14 23:28:24

by Con Kolivas

Subject: devfs on 2.5.34 and invisible partition

My /dev/hda7 (ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7) was rendered invisible with
devfs enabled in 2.5.34.

Disabling devfs made it visible again.

Con.

2002-09-15 02:49:06

by Hiroshi Takekawa

Subject: Re: devfs on 2.5.34 and invisible partition

> My /dev/hda7 (ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7) was rendered invisible with
> devfs enabled in 2.5.34.
> Disabling devfs made it visible again.

Is /dev/hda7 the last partition of /dev/hda? Then apply this to
check.c in linux/fs/partitions/.

--- check.c~ Tue Sep 10 19:34:55 2002
+++ check.c Wed Sep 11 19:55:29 2002
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
devfs_auto_unregister(dev->disk_de, slave);
if (!(dev->flags & GENHD_FL_DEVFS))
devfs_auto_unregister (slave, dir);
- for (part = 1, p++; part < max_p; part++, p++)
+ for (part = 1; part < max_p; part++, p++)
if (p->nr_sects)
devfs_register_partition(dev, part);
#endif