Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:18:32 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       dm-devel@redhat.com, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Device mapper regression 2.6.23 vs. v2.6.23-6597-gcfa76f0
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:23:21 +0200 Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have an external hard drive with an encrypted partition. I am using
> kde so all i had to do under 2.6.23 was
>   "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 crypt-extern"
> 
> then udev/hal/kde (?)automatically created an desktop icon. i could
> click this icon to mount and open the drive.
> 
> when i do the luksOpen command with v2.6.23-6597-gcfa76f0 this icon is
> not created anymore.
> 
> a few commits were made in drivers/md, so it seems something broke.
> 
> config extract:
> 
> CONFIG_MD=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
> # CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=y
> CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m
> CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m
> CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m
> # CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH is not set
> CONFIG_DM_DELAY=m
> CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y
> # CONFIG_FUSION is not set
> 
> any ideas?
> 

Could be DM breakage, could be udev/sysfs breakage.  Is it still happening
in current mainline?

And how come I'm seeing unresponded-to-for-a-week regression
reports on lkml?

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