Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757928AbXLGThK (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:37:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757386AbXLGTgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:36:40 -0500 Received: from gherkin.frus.com ([192.158.254.49]:39091 "EHLO gherkin.frus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753147AbXLGTgh (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:36:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha In-Reply-To: <1197051572.3599.10.camel@lov.site> "from Kay Sievers at Dec 7, 2007 07:19:32 pm" To: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:36:30 -0600 (CST) CC: Ingo Molnar , Bob Tracy , Andrew Morton , mcree@orcon.net.nz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20071207193630.A3145DBA2@gherkin.frus.com> From: rct@frus.com (Bob Tracy) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2947 Lines: 70 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm not sure how to do direct debugging on udev, so i can only guess > > about what effect on the kernel side could have caused this. One bad > > hack would be to "probe" udevd's behavior by changing the NET_TR entry > > in various ways: > > > > "tr" -> "token-ring" # breaks > > "tr" -> "tr" # works > > "tr" -> "token-rin0" # ? (1) > > "tr" -> "TR" # ? (2) > > > > the question is, does tweak (1) and tweak (2) work or break? > > > > but it would be a lot more effective i guess to get some udevd expert's > > attention on this ... > > Could we get the output of: > ls -l /sys/block/sda/ > and: > grep . /sys/block/sda/*/dev > ? Here are the requested items for the 2.6.24-rc2-g6f37ac79-dirty kernel (the working one with the sysctl_check.c patch reverted): smirkin:/# ls -l /sys/block/sda total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 capability -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 dev lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 device -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/0000:01:09.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 holders drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 queue -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 range -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 removable drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 sda7 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 size drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 slaves -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 stat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 7 08:36 subsystem -> ../../block --w------- 1 root root 8192 Dec 7 08:36 uevent smirkin:/# grep . /sys/block/sda/*/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev:8:1 /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev:8:2 /sys/block/sda/sda3/dev:8:3 /sys/block/sda/sda4/dev:8:4 /sys/block/sda/sda5/dev:8:5 /sys/block/sda/sda6/dev:8:6 /sys/block/sda/sda7/dev:8:7 Assuming /sys/block even exists for the non-working case, I'll forward that info in a few hours when I can get home to reboot the machine. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " rct@frus.com | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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/