Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:57:42 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 - udev doesn't work (was: ATI SATA controller not detected)
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:48:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 30 October 2006 21:22, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:15:37PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Sorry, I was wrong.
> > > 
> > > The controller _is_ detected and handled properly, but udev is apparently
> > > unable to create the special device files for SATA drives/partitions even
> > > though CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is set.
> > 
> > This config option should not affect the block device sysfs files at all
> > at this point in time.
> > 
> > What does 'tree /sys/block/' show?
> 
> I can't run 'tree', but 'ls' works somehow (can't mount the root fs).  The
> block device sysfs files seem to be present

If they are there, then udev should work just fine.

> > If the files show up there properly, udev should handle them just fine.
> 
> It doesn't.
> 
> Well, I can binary search for the offending patch if that helps.

That would be very helpful, thanks.

greg k-h
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