Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:41:26 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM |
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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_handle[vg_ptr->vg_number] = devfs_mk_dir(0, vg_ptr->vg_name, NULL);
I don't know what directory you're creating for the stuff below, but can you put all the LVM stuff under /dev/lvm/ please? Then make the "lvm" char entry above /dev/lvm/control or something like that?
> + ch_devfs_handle[vg_ptr->vg_number] = devfs_register( > + vg_devfs_handle[vg_ptr->vg_number] , "group", > + DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, vg_ptr->vg_number, > + S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, > + &lvm_chr_fops, NULL); [...] > + lv_devfs_handle[lv->lv_number] = devfs_register( > + vg_devfs_handle[vg_ptr->vg_number], lv_buf, > + DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, LVM_BLK_MAJOR, lv->lv_number, > + S_IFBLK | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, > + &lvm_blk_dops, NULL);
Are these in a subdirectory
Regards,
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