Re: edd_id and floppy devices

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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:35, Bryan Kadzban
<bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After upgrading to udev-124, my kernel started logging errors on each
> boot (and in fact whenever "udevadm trigger" got run).  The errors were
> as follows:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>
> Based on the "dev fd0" part, I figured the issue was some rule that was
> running on the fd0 device; I eventually tracked it down to edd_id.  (I
> suspect I was getting errors because the drive had no media, but that's
> probably the default state for most floppy drives most of the time
> anyway.)  Adding the following rule to 61-persistent-storage-edd.rules
> (as the second rule) makes the kernel errors stop:
>
> KERNEL=="fd*", GOTO="persistent_storage_edd_end"
>
> I am assuming that floppy disks can't possibly store an EDD signature
> (and so there would be no problems disabling edd_id for fd* devices),
> but I don't know that for sure.  Is this change safe for the rules
> distributed with udev?

Hmm, does this not work for you?
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=bc44071db2ea1f20d955e5f1310c8038e78abd73

It's part of 124.

Thanks,
Kay
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