From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 2:54:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from theinternet.com.au (co3040619-a.kelvn1.qld.optushome.com.au [203.164.207.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941A137B409; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by theinternet.com.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7F9rib19853; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:53:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:53:44 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , Greg Lehey , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) Message-ID: <20010815195344.J854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <75038.997852562@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <75038.997852562@critter>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:16:02AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]---------------------- | In message <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milton | writes: | >+-------[ Greg Lehey ]---------------------- | >| | > | >[snip] | > | >| whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had | >| a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand | >| subdirectories: it treated the / as a part of the device name. | > | >The subdir part bit me about a week ago, so I'd say it's still not fixed. | | This is absolutely news to me. I'm pretty sure that you will find | that /dev/fd[012] exists on your system and that it was created using | '/' in make_dev calls... This I saw, but, I had no idea how this was done.. I've been in a flu induced coma of late, so I didn't really search too hard to be completely honest.. | | More details on this bug are most welcome. The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to. The DRI Module first attempts to mkdir /dev/dri/, and then for each card it supports attempts to use make_dev(9) on dri/card%d (0-whatever), I've only got one card, so for me dri/card0. Loading the DRI module causes an instant panic (which I think is actually caused by DRI, not DEVFS, it's still quite inconvenient). The same module works fine with a 'regular' /dev/ Assuming that the mkdirs were failing on /dev/ with DEVFS I made a symlink in rc.devfs for /dev/dri -> /usr/dev/dri (that's how I found the bug with directory targets of symlinks being treated as symlinks...). This still caused the panic (which is sort of understandable since /usr/dev/ isn't in /dev/). I remove the mkdirs and simply use make_dev on dri_card0 instead of dri/card0, everything works like a charm. Using mknod also used to work fine with the symlink and DEVFS. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message