On Friday 30 November 2001 21:04, you wrote: > 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 :-)
I found the patch and will give it a try. Thanx! > > -andrej > > In theory praxis and theory are the same. In praxis they are different.
