Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory

[Andrew Morton]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:32:45AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm2/
> > > 
> > 
> > I see one small change in behaviour with this kernel.
> > 
> > During boot when initializing udev I see 
> > 
> > Initializing udev dynamic device directory.
> > grep: /proc/ide/sr0/model: No such file or directory
> > grep: /proc/ide/sr1/model: No such file or directory
> > 
> > With previous kernels I only see
> > 
> > Initializing udev dynamic device directory.
> 
> That is because you have a udev script that is expecting to see ide
> stuff in proc.  That has now been moved to sysfs, so you should not need
> to run external scripts to detect ide devices now.  I suggest you go bug
> your distro, or whoever set up those rules about it.

err, we don't want to break existing userspace setups, please.
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