Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:33:30 +0200
From: Gregoire Favre <greg@ulima.unil.ch>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lilo and 2.5.69?
Message-ID: <20030511143330.GA11792@ulima.unil.ch>
References: <fa.esb041l.fng3gd@ifi.uio.no> <fa.fb22044.i12sp4@ifi.uio.no>
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In fa.linux.kernel, you wrote:

> You need to fix lilo to not assume the names listet in /proc/partitions are
> actual device files.  In 2.5.69 there's a bug that it prints truncated devfs
> names instead of traditional device names as it should, but relying on the
> names to mean anything is broken - that kernel can't enforce the device names
> used.
> 
> The following patch that is in Linus BK tree should get it working for you
> again for now..

Great ;-)

I'll compil with your patch: thank you very much,

	Gr?goire
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