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@xxxxxxxx | - 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-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html