Re: devfs on 2.5.34 and invisible partition

From: Hiroshi Takekawa (sian@big.or.jp)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 21:53:48 EST


> My /dev/hda7 (ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7) was rendered invisible with
> devfs enabled in 2.5.34.
> Disabling devfs made it visible again.

Is /dev/hda7 the last partition of /dev/hda? Then apply this to
check.c in linux/fs/partitions/.

--- check.c~ Tue Sep 10 19:34:55 2002
+++ check.c Wed Sep 11 19:55:29 2002
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
         devfs_auto_unregister(dev->disk_de, slave);
         if (!(dev->flags & GENHD_FL_DEVFS))
                 devfs_auto_unregister (slave, dir);
- for (part = 1, p++; part < max_p; part++, p++)
+ for (part = 1; part < max_p; part++, p++)
                 if (p->nr_sects)
                         devfs_register_partition(dev, part);
 #endif
-
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