On Sunday 10 May 2009 19:36:59 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 22:57, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The loop_scandir() expects all the files in /dev/loop/ to be actual > > devices and not symlinks to devices. However, udev by default sets up > > symlinks in /dev/loop/ thereby breaking the fallback scan logic when > > looking for devices more than the default number of 8. > > Just a note, udev does not do that by default. It is devfs-nonsense, > which the "default" never did. you say devfs garbage but i'm pretty sure that was how the devices were always named before devfs ... > And I think you should also get rid of it, if Gentoo still adds that > on top of the udev rules. yeah, we have a compat rule in place due to the changed naming easily breaking root device mounting. but we've carried that for quite a long time at this point, so time to let it go. -mike
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