Critical problem in 2.6.2 and up

From: Marcos D. Marado Torres (marado_at_student.dei.uc.pt)
Date: 02/11/04

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    Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:58:10 +0000 (WET)
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    Greetings,

    Somewhere between 2.6.2-rc3 and 2.6.2, more specificly between 2.6.2-rc3 and
    2.6.2-rc3-mm1 appeared a patch in the bitkeeper, that was included in
    linux.patch used in 2.6.2-rc3-mm1, in 2.6.2 and it's still present.

    The patch follows:

    diff -Nru a/drivers/block/genhd.c b/drivers/block/genhd.c
    - --- a/drivers/block/genhd.c Wed Feb 4 16:51:35 2004
    +++ b/drivers/block/genhd.c Wed Feb 4 16:51:35 2004
    @@ -260,8 +260,10 @@
            if (&sgp->kobj.entry == block_subsys.kset.list.next)
                    seq_puts(part, "major minor #blocks name\n\n");

    - - /* Don't show non-partitionable devices or empty devices */
    - - if (!get_capacity(sgp) || sgp->minors == 1)
    + /* Don't show non-partitionable removeable devices or empty devices */
    + if (!get_capacity(sgp) ||
    + (sgp->minors == 1 && (sgp->flags & GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE))
    + )
                    return 0;

            /* show the full disk and all non-0 size partitions of it */

    This patch should be -R's ASAP, since it cause major problems: as an example, I
    have an Asus M3700N laptopwhere this patch causes the system to do this:

    # lilo

    Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
        Name change: '/dev/nbd0' -> '/tmp/dev.0'
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 0) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 1) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 2) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 3) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 4) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 5) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 6) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 7) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 8) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 9) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 10) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 11) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 12) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 13) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 14) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 15) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 16) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 17) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 18) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 19) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 20) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 21) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 22) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 23) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 24) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 25) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 26) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 27) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 28) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 29) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 30) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 31) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 32) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 33) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 34) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 35) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 36) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 37) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 38) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 39) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 40) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 41) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 42) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 43) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 44) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 45) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 46) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 47) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 48) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 49) is missing.
    Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (43, 50) is missing.
    Fatal: Failed to create a temporary device

    If I revert the patch lilo runs normally.

    Best regards,
    Mind Booster Noori

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