Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:48:53PM +, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > > I can add a patch that does full-blown devfs > > > checking to the tools, but this needs a lot of work. > > > > Actually changing the tools to recognize

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:48:53PM +, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > I can add a patch that does full-blown devfs > > checking to the tools, but this needs a lot of work. > > Actually changing the tools to recognize devfs seems fairly simple. > I am already working on it. > > _But_ the LVM M

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:46:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:51:14PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > I can't use /dev/lvm, too because this is the name of the control file > > > without lvm (and the lvm tools will barf if this is a dircetory. > > > > Well, how

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. > > Don't worry about that. I can add a rule to devfsd so it creates > appropriate compatibility entries. But the userlevel tool needs fixed too. Recompiling is fine, as long as

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread David Ford
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > > > + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, > > > > Does this really have to go into /dev rather than a subdirectory? > > Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. > I can't use /dev/lvm, too

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:51:14PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > I can't use /dev/lvm, too because this is the name of the control file > > without lvm (and the lvm tools will barf if this is a dircetory. > > Well, how about another directory name? Can you think of something > else that would b

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Gooch
Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:41:26PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Hi Linus, > > > I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. > > > Here it is. > > [...] > > > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > > > + 0 , "lvm", 0,

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:41:26PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > Hi Linus, > > I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. > > Here it is. > [...] > > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > > + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, > > Does this rea

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Gooch
Christoph Hellwig writes: > Hi Linus, > I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. > Here it is. [...] > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, Does this really have to go into /dev rather than a subdirectory? [...] > + vg_devfs_

[PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Linus, I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. Here it is. Christoph -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. --- linux.orig/drivers/block/lvm.c Fri Jul 14 14:38:29 2000 +++ linux/drivers/block/lvm.c Sun Sep 3 13:54:00 2000 @@ -299,6