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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On 5/3/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:18:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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?

/proc/ide stuff was _not_ removed, please see original mail:
 
On 5/1/05, Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote:

> This machine has no IDE device at all, only SCSI, and the kernel config
> has no IDE support either. The config I'm using has not changed in any

Thanks,
Bartlomiej
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