Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751314AbVIFEeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:34:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751318AbVIFEeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:34:22 -0400 Received: from highlandsun.propagation.net ([66.221.212.168]:39954 "EHLO highlandsun.propagation.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbVIFEeV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:34:21 -0400 Message-ID: <431D1C3F.6090302@symas.com> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:34:07 -0700 From: Howard Chu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050829 SeaMonkey/1.1a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6, devfs, SMP, SATA References: <81b0412b0509041529524bca1f@mail.gmail.com> <431B7BE2.9070806@symas.com> <84144f02050905055633713bd3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84144f02050905055633713bd3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 26 Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 9/5/05, Howard Chu wrote: > >> So, any guesses why with otherwise identical config options, a kernel >> with SMP enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it >> should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't checked to >> see if any other device files are missing.) >> > > Devfs is disabled in 2.6.13 as it most likely will be going away soon. > See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111939455921877&w=2. > Thanks for the note. I guess I meant udev, or whatever it is that populates /dev these days. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/ - 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/