Re: Removeable Media, partitions and devfs?

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin P. Fleming writes:
> > --- check.c~ Thu Oct 11 18:25:10 2001
> > +++ check.c Thu Dec  6 23:49:54 2001
> > @@ -383,6 +383,8 @@
> >
> >   dev->part[first_minor].nr_sects = size;
> >   /* No such device or no minors to use for partitions */
> > + if ( !size && dev->flags && (dev->flags[drive] & GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE) )
> > + devfs_register_disc (dev, first_minor);
> >   if (!size || minors == 1)
> >   return;
> >
> 
> I'm sorry to say that this patch does not seem to work for me. I
> applied it to 2.4.17-pre5, and installed the new kernel and rebooted
> with no media in my ZIP 250 drive. The drive did not show in either
> /dev/discs or /dev/ide at all. It _was_ found by the ide driver and
> ide-floppy driver (version 0.97.sv as shipped with 2.4.17-pre5), but
> did not show in up the /dev heirarchy anywhere.

Someone else reported having problems, and it looks to me like the
media revalidation isn't working. It used to. Check the list
archives, I asked for people to insert debugging printk()'s to find
out what's going wrong. I don't have hardware to check this.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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