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 proble
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
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.
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 compatibi
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 compatibi
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:
>
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
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
> >
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)
> de
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.
>
>
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 users
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