On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:18:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH <[email protected]> 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.
I agree. Bart, want to put the /proc stuff back, mark it depreciated in
the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as going away in 6 months
or so, and then remove it after that time has gone by?
thanks,
greg k-h
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