Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261535AbVECS1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:27:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261528AbVECS1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:27:54 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:13760 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261503AbVECS1s (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:27:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:27:30 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Andrew Morton , B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, juhl-lkml@dif.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20050503182729.GC14539@kroah.com> References: <20050430164303.6538f47c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050503031158.GA6917@kroah.com> <20050502201823.0ab02e96.akpm@osdl.org> <20050503044805.GA14750@kroah.com> <58cb370e05050300117f125506@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58cb370e05050300117f125506@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2186 Lines: 55 On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:11:08AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 5/3/05, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:18:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:32:45AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm2/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see one small change in behaviour with this kernel. > > > > > > > > > > During boot when initializing udev I see > > > > > > > > > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory. > > > > > grep: /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory > > > > > grep: /proc/ide/sr1/model: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > > > With previous kernels I only see > > > > > > > > > > Initializing udev dynamic device directory. > > > > > > > > That is because you have a udev script that is expecting to see ide > > > > stuff in proc. That has now been moved to sysfs, so you should not need > > > > to run external scripts to detect ide devices now. I suggest you go bug > > > > your distro, or whoever set up those rules about it. > > > > > > err, we don't want to break existing userspace setups, please. > > > > I agree. Bart, want to put the /proc stuff back, mark it depreciated in > > the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as going away in 6 months > > or so, and then remove it after that time has gone by? > > /proc/ide stuff was _not_ removed, please see original mail: > > On 5/1/05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > This machine has no IDE device at all, only SCSI, and the kernel config > > has no IDE support either. The config I'm using has not changed in any Doh, sorry about that. Must be a pretty dumb udev script that is failing there, please report this to your distro. thanks, greg k-h - 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/