I have a 2.6.34.10-based kernel with udev-161 (also tested with udevadm from udev-173). When I run "udevadm info --attribute-walk --path=/block/sda" it just shows the device itself, and doesn't walk the whole chain showing the parents. Is there anything I can do, or am I caught with a kernel that isn't properly supported? I'm not subscribed to the hotplug list, so cc'ing me would be appreciated. I don't know what's causing the problem, but I find it suspicious that /sys/block/sda is a directory rather than a symlink like it is on my 2.6.35.14 laptop. I'm poking around in the udevadm code now. Some possibly-useful information: root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> udevadm info --attribute-walk --path=/block/sda Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format. A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device and the attributes from one single parent device. looking at device '/block/sda': KERNEL=="sda" SUBSYSTEM=="block" DRIVER=="" ATTR{range}=="16" ATTR{ext_range}=="256" ATTR{removable}=="0" ATTR{ro}=="0" ATTR{size}=="586072368" ATTR{alignment_offset}=="0" ATTR{discard_alignment}=="0" ATTR{capability}=="50" ATTR{stat}==" 12 3 80 50 0 0 0 0 0 50 50" ATTR{inflight}==" 0 0" root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> udevadm info -p /block/sda -q all P: /block/sda N: sda S: scsi/host/bus/target/lun/disc S: discs/disc0/disc S: block/8:0 S: disk/by-id/scsi-1ATA_WDC_WD3000BLHX-01V7BV0_WD-WX61E41PY599 E: UDEV_LOG=3 E: DEVPATH=/block/sda E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: DEVNAME=sda E: ID_SCSI=1 E: ID_VENDOR=ATA E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=ATA\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20 E: ID_MODEL=WDC_WD3000BLHX-0 E: ID_MODEL_ENC=WDC\x20WD3000BLHX-0 E: ID_REVISION=04.0 E: ID_TYPE=disk E: ID_SERIAL=1ATA_WDC_WD3000BLHX-01V7BV0_WD-WX61E41PY599 E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=ATA_WDC_WD3000BLHX-01V7BV0_WD-WX61E41PY599 E: ID_SCSI_SERIAL=WD-WX61E41PY599 E: ID_BUS=scsi E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=0 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 E: PHYSDEVBUS=scsi E: PHYSDEVDRIVER=sd E: DEVLINKS=/dev/scsi/host/bus/target/lun/disc /dev/discs/disc0/disc /dev/block/8:0 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1ATA_WDC_WD3000BLHX-01V7BV0_WD-WX61E41PY599 root@typhoon-base-unit0:/root> ls -l /sys/block/sda total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 alignment_offset lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 bdi -> ../../class/bdi/8:0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 capability -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 dev lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 device -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 discard_alignment -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 ext_range drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 holders -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 inflight drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 power drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 queue -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 range -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 removable -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 ro drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 sda1 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 sda2 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 size drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 slaves -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 stat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 18 14:16 subsystem -> ../../block -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Apr 18 14:16 uevent Thanks, Chris -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxx www.genband.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html