Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:03:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev |
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:57:46AM -0400, Joe wrote: > On 4/28/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > Is the device "disappearing" and then the udev deletes the device node, > > and then dd starts dumping data to a file instead? > > > > Anything in your kernel log when this happens? > > > > Does this happen with 2.6.12-rc3? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > > > I've checked the kernel logs and was unable to find anything > suspicious. This does not seem to happen on vanilla, its a mm only > issue. > > The device becomes a regular file, and udev seems to forget about it..
That implies that udev got a hotplug event that told it to delete the node.
Any kernel log entries? Is the device in usb or firewire mode?
> even if I replug in the device, udev will not touch this file.
That's because the file is not a node, and udev will not overwrite that.
> It also seems to have trouble recreating the node even when the file > has been deleted
"trouble" how?
thanks,
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