> > but no device files of hard disks or floppy.
> > And I look into loader2. Loader2 will load all the require modules. Yet I
> > cannot find code creating those block device files.
> >
> > Would anyone kindly point it out for me?
>
> See devMakeInode in isys/devNodes.c. You'll see references to 's' 'd'
> and 'h' 'd' and so forth. This is called from makeDevInode, in
> isys/isys.c.
>
> The code that you want is in iutil.py:
> > hardDrives = isys.hardDriveDict()
> > for drive in hardDrives.keys():
> > if drive.startswith("mapper"):
> > continue
> > isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,))
> >
> > if drive.startswith("hd"):
> > num = 32
> > elif drive.startswith("dasd"):
> > num = 4
> > else:
> > num = 15
> >
> > if (drive.startswith("cciss") or drive.startswith("ida") or
> > drive.startswith("rd") or drive.startswith("sx8")):
> > sep = "p"
> > else:
> > sep = ""
> >
> > for i in range(1, num):
> > dev = "%s%s%d" % (drive, sep, i)
> > isys.makeDevInode(dev, "/dev/%s" % (dev,))
>
> I hope this helps you understand the source code.
Thank you very much, Steven. I'm wondering if anaconda inserts the scsi (or
SATA) module automatically, since kudzu is
removing /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable, which is used to find out the correct
module.
Best Regards,
Levin Du
