Re: lilo and 2.5.69?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:09:45PM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> Is there something special to do with this new kernel?

You need to fix lilo to not assume the names listet in /proc/partitions are
actual device files.  In 2.5.69 there's a bug that it prints truncated devfs
names instead of traditional device names as it should, but relying on the
names to mean anything is broken - that kernel can't enforce the device names
used.

The following patch that is in Linus BK tree should get it working for you
again for now..


--- 1.108/fs/partitions/check.c	Tue Apr 29 17:42:50 2003
+++ edited/fs/partitions/check.c	Fri May  2 09:41:04 2003
@@ -96,19 +96,6 @@
 
 char *disk_name(struct gendisk *hd, int part, char *buf)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
-	if (hd->devfs_name[0] != '\0') {
-		if (part)
-			snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s/part%d",
-					hd->devfs_name, part);
-		else if (hd->minors != 1)
-			snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s/disc", hd->devfs_name);
-		else
-			snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s", hd->devfs_name);
-		return buf;
-	}
-#endif
-
 	if (!part)
 		snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s", hd->disk_name);
 	else if (isdigit(hd->disk_name[strlen(hd->disk_name)-1]))