For some reasons it never was sent it seems.
On ���, 2001-11-30 at 19:16, RA wrote: > > Your mentioned patch is probably linux-2.4.10-ac10-ide-floppy-devfs.patch, > isn't it? > I'm not a C programmer or kernel expert, but after boot devfs only knows, > that there is a drive (without partitioning info). > The problem is, that mount does not trigger a new lookup for the drive > partitioning. > When new device is registered, it is marked as removable and directory (/dev/ide/.../lun0/) holds removables count registered under it. In this case it is .../disc. When you lookup .../part4 and it is not found and directory has non-zero removables count it initiates rescan for parition information. That is theory :-) The bug in ide-floppy was that with empty drive *nothing* ever was registered, and for this reason lookup of .../part4 never triggered partition revalidation. The person who reported this bug also reported that it was fixed by above mentioned patch. I do not have any ide-floppy devices to test it now. You may want to look on lkml (about two days ago) for a ide-floppy patch from driver maintainer. It does it slightly differently. May be it works better. Or I can send it to you (I guess I have not yet deleted it :-) -andrej In theory praxis and theory are the same. In praxis they are different.
