Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 04:37:10 EST


On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:57:07 -0600,
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> > Got it: It's patch 6, the readdir simplification.
> >
> > (The udev on that guest is ancient (063)...)
>
> Ok. That is weird.

More weirdness. If I activate another dasd from the repair file
system, /dev/dasdb is created...

Same if I set the card reader online: /dev/vmrdr-0.0.000c is created as
expected.

> Does it depend on the order in which the dentries are returned from
> readdir?

I'd think not.

> Unless I made a really stupid error otherwise the two versions
> of readdir should have the same semantics.

Yes, your patch looks sane. I have no idea why it breaks stuff...
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