On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:33:29 +0100
Blaisorblade <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 14:17, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:02:30AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 January 2007 21:13, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > > I was playing with user-mode Linux and found that mknod creates
> > > > devices node in hostfs with wrong major/minor numbers.
> > > > The patch below fixes it for me.
> > >
> > > Hmpf. Still having this bug on hostfs is quite bad. Thanks for reporting.
>
> I've now seen - we never fixed this one, we fixed the analogous problem
> on 'ls' output and friends (in init_inode, which is used in many places).
>
> > > It should be hostfs_user.c to take major and minor and to combine them
> > > correctly - it can use libc's macros.
> >
> > Right, below is a better patch.
>
> Exactly what I meant, thanks!
> I'd say:
> Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[email protected]>
> This can go to 2.6.20, and possibly even to -stable (after either me or Jeff
> tests it once).
So.. did you test it?
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