Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-06-03 Thread Alan Stern
Greg: A while back you asked whether Kay's block-device patch would work under FC3 or FC4. I've got an old FC4 system; the normal kernel-update procedure hasn't worked on it for some time. (I don't remember exactly when it stopped working.) Not for any sinister reason. The underlying

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-06-03 Thread Alan Stern
Greg: A while back you asked whether Kay's block-device patch would work under FC3 or FC4. I've got an old FC4 system; the normal kernel-update procedure hasn't worked on it for some time. (I don't remember exactly when it stopped working.) Not for any sinister reason. The underlying

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-24 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:35 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > [] > > From: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices > > > > This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a > > flat list of all block

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-24 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:08:42 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, yeah, that is wierd. > > Kay found the problem (he's traveling right now) and here's his updated > version of the patch which should work for everyone involved. > > Please let me know if this causes any problems or

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-24 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:08:42 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yeah, that is wierd. Kay found the problem (he's traveling right now) and here's his updated version of the patch which should work for everyone involved. Please let me know if this causes any problems or not. Ah,

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-24 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:35 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: Greg KH wrote: [] From: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Greg KH wrote: [] > From: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices > > This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a > flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one > directory. For

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Greg KH wrote: [] > From: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices > > This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a > flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one > directory. For

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:39:59AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:32:55 -0700, > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, > > > Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:39:59AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:32:55 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Greg KH wrote: [] From: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one directory. For compatibility

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Greg KH wrote: [] From: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one directory. For compatibility

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:32:55 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, > > Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, > Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC 3 (or > > 4, can look this up). With s390 defconfig, it is unable to open the > >

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC 3 (or > 4, can look this up). With s390 defconfig, it is unable to open the > root device /dev/dasda1 (which is unsurprising, considering udev (063) >

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:53:53 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, could anyone still running the crufty and unsupported Fedora 3 and 4 > releases test this patch out and let us know if it boots your machine or > not? I don't want to break legacy distros if we can possibly help it. >

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC 3 (or 4, can look this up). With s390 defconfig, it is unable to open the root device /dev/dasda1 (which is unsurprising, considering udev (063) decided

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC 3 (or 4, can look this up). With s390 defconfig, it is unable to open the root

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:32:55 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:01 +0200, Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this on one of our internal drivers, which is based on FC 3 (or 4,

Re: [RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:53:53 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, could anyone still running the crufty and unsupported Fedora 3 and 4 releases test this patch out and let us know if it boots your machine or not? I don't want to break legacy distros if we can possibly help it. This

[RFC PATCH] /sys/block -> /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 & 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-21 Thread Greg KH
Here's a patch from Kay that has been knocking around in my personal tree for about 6 months. It moves the block code to use 'struct device' and moves the tree from /sys/block into /sys/class/block. Now don't everyone fret, there are still symlinks in /sys/block to the new entries, so older

[RFC PATCH] /sys/block - /sys/class/block (Fedora 3 4 testers wanted)

2007-05-21 Thread Greg KH
Here's a patch from Kay that has been knocking around in my personal tree for about 6 months. It moves the block code to use 'struct device' and moves the tree from /sys/block into /sys/class/block. Now don't everyone fret, there are still symlinks in /sys/block to the new entries, so older