Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753687AbZDMBVh (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:21:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbZDMBV1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:21:27 -0400 Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:47346 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbZDMBV0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:21:26 -0400 Message-ID: <49E29386.20204@solemnwarning.net> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:21:10 +0100 From: Daniel Collins User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28 /proc/diskstats References: <49E13D18.2090805@solemnwarning.net> In-Reply-To: <49E13D18.2090805@solemnwarning.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=4J9GnK0NU8PFg4qgppoA:9 a=M2UmFvomYaTM5H23t7fau_b5Y1oA:4 a=CWfAmLVWKswA:10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 19 I've stepped through the commits in linux-2.6, the first revision with this behavior is 074a7aca7afa6f230104e8e65eba3420263714a5 Daniel Collins wrote: > Hi > > Since 2.6.28, fd0 isn't visible in /proc/diskstats from boot, only > after access/mount. It is visible in /sys/block/ from boot, so there > are no issues detecting it. This may also affect other devices such as > hda but I haven't tested this yet, my test system and QEMU both only > have ram0-ram15 from boot. I have tested 2.6.30-rc1 and found the same > behavior. Is this a bug or a deliberate change? > > Thanks -- 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/