https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c2 --- Comment #2 from Tejun Heo 2008-11-22 09:01:23 MST --- Patch to add /proc/devices entry got merged into upstream. Dynamic devt won't be supported properly for 11.0 or 11.1. There simply are too many things which can break. I'm thinking about enabling it in FACTORY once 2.6.28 is released and 11.1 has rolled out. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User hare@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c3 Hannes Reinecke changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #3 from Hannes Reinecke 2008-11-24 02:15:08 MST --- Yes, I'll have to agree here. We don't support dynamic devt for openSUSE 11.1, so this bug can only be addressed once we do openSUSE 11.2. And we certainly won't add any patches at this stage, as we're closing on the release. Sorry. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c5 Jan Engelhardt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Component|Kernel |Kernel Product|openSUSE 11.1 |openSUSE 11.2 Resolution|WONTFIX | Target Milestone|--- |Alpha 0 Version|Factory |unspecified --- Comment #5 from Jan Engelhardt 2008-12-10 09:03:23 MST --- Moving to 11.2 category now that it is available. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c7 --- Comment #7 from Jan Engelhardt 2008-12-12 20:22:11 MST --- grep -r /proc/partitions $culprit_files That's the first thing to do for sure, as I seem to remember having seen mkinitrd extracting the major number from /dev/sda2 and trying to look that up in /proc/partitions. Since sda2 was on major 253 and there was nothing registered to 253, mkinitrd failed. Yay, I think we can trade the evil “lookup module name thru /partitions” by the other evil “assume sd_mod if pattern matches ^sd\w+\d+$/”. Or maybe it's easier. mkinitrd should not look for sda2, but sda, that is, strip the partition number. Because sda is still registered to major 8, which, at least temporarily, should make this mkinitrd machinery work too. How about it? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User jengelh@medozas.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c9 --- Comment #9 from Jan Engelhardt 2008-12-12 21:52:08 MST --- You would not need to tamper with major/minors at all. x="sda2"; driver=`readlink -f "/sys/block/${x%[0-9]*}/device/driver"`; echo "${driver##*/}"; The only things that bothers me here is that it return “sd” instead of “sd_mod”, but given that /proc/devices also outputs “sd” I guess that mkinitrd deals with that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c11 --- Comment #11 from Tejun Heo 2008-12-14 04:39:34 MST --- It's in 2.6.28-rcN. "Kernel Hacking" -> "Force extended block device numbers and spread them". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968 User bwalle@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447968#c12 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #12 from Bernhard Walle 2009-01-08 10:12:45 MST --- I think the major:minor pair is not used for driver detection. However, handling minor device numbers larger than 256 was just broken. Commit http://git.opensuse.org/?p=projects/mkinitrd.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d62c04e231c... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.