Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264977AbTFLUHu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:07:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264978AbTFLUHt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:07:49 -0400 Received: from devil.servak.biz ([209.124.81.2]:51649 "EHLO devil.servak.biz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264977AbTFLUHs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:07:48 -0400 Subject: Re: SBP2 hotplug doesn't update /proc/partitions From: Torrey Hoffman To: Ben Collins Cc: Andrew Morton , linux firewire devel , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <1055446080.3480.291.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> References: <1054770509.1198.79.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> <3EDE870C.1EFA566C@digeo.com> <1054838369.1737.11.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> <20030605175412.GF625@phunnypharm.org> <1054858724.3519.19.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> <20030606025721.GJ625@phunnypharm.org> <1055446080.3480.291.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1055449280.1789.28.camel@torrey.et.myrio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 12 Jun 2003 13:21:21 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - devil.servak.biz X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - arnor.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 27 This is perhaps a related problem: I just noticed that if I have a firewire drive plugged in at boot, the SBP2 driver detects it during boot: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e8201000-e82017ff] Max Packet=[2048] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device ieee1394: sbp2: Node[00:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] Vendor: Maxtor 4 Model: A250J8 Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0004830000002cb3] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0040630000001c47] But, the drive itself (/dev/sda) and any partitions on it don't show up in /proc/partitions until I mount one of them or perform some sort of other access to the drive, like running fdisk on it. To me, this seems to be a bug. Or is it actually by design? -- Torrey Hoffman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/