Re: modules.devfsd needs /dev/scsi/*/part* handling

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Borsenkow Andrej writes:

[Stuff about forcing media revalidation when looking up compatibility
names]

> Attached patch is against current Mandrake devfsd.conf. It works just
> fine here for SCSI; I'd appreciate anybody testing it for IDE. It is
> great because it means we can continue to use compatibility names by
> default without endless "hey, why it says no such device!"=20
> 
> blockdev is garanteed to exist on Mandrake that is currently my concern
> :-)
> 
> many thanks for idea (yes, sometimes you must really read TFM).

Well, thanks, but since blockdev isn't available everywhere, I can't
really use it in a generic configuration file. However, I wonder if
blockdev is actually required. IIRC, merely opening the block device
should suffice to trigger media revalidation. Is this not the case?
What is blockdev doing that is special?

Can you please try to use dd instead in your devfsd.conf file and tell
me if that works? An action like this:
        EXECUTE dd if=$mntpnt/\1 of=/dev/null count=1

should suffice. It will probably generate some messages about 1+0
blocks read and so forth, but ignore that for now.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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