Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 20:26:20 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: joecool1029@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with
 recent mm's and udev)
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On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:14:21 -0700 Greg KH wrote:

| On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Joe wrote:
| > Ok, first off I'd like to say, I am on 2.6.12-rc3-mm2, and this issue
| > is not fixed at all.  Secondly, I'd like to say that I've pinpointed
| > it a bit more.  It appears only Empty partitions (type 0 in fdisk) do
| > not create device nodes.
| > 
| > Here is the partition table from fdisk, fdisk does run fine.. its just
| > the fact this node is not created that threw me off before.
| > 
| >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
| > /dev/sdb1   *           1           2       16033+   0  Empty
| > /dev/sdb2   *           6        2431    19486845    b  W95 FAT32
| > /dev/sdb3               3           5       24097+  83  Linux
| > 
| > 
| > Notice, /dev/sdb1 is a Empty partition... in /dev I only have sdb,
| > sdb2, and sdb3.  No sdb1.  Any help would be appreciated.
| 
| Looks like it might be a scsi issue.  Redirecting to that mailing list
| now.  Anyone here have a clue?

Could this 2.6.11.8 -stable patch fix it?
Subject: [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix

Joe, can you test 2.6.11.8, please?

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~Randy
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