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Old 09-13-2004, 01:15 PM   #1
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UDEV and Raw devices


Hi!
I need some help: I nead to use raw devices (/dev/raw/raw*) with kernel 2.6 series...
with devfs I have no ploblem, but now... I can't create /dev/raw
I have installed a slackware 10.

Thanks for your help!!!!
 
Old 09-13-2004, 01:53 PM   #2
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Logically it is supported without any change if I read correctly :

KERNEL="raw[0-9]*", NAME="raw/%k"

in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules
 
Old 09-14-2004, 06:04 AM   #3
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yes, I've seen that... but the special devices aren't created.
The only one is /dev/rawctl

 
Old 09-14-2004, 06:11 AM   #4
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Have hotplug enabled ?

What is your output for :
cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i raw

[edit]
from kernel config help, I see CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is marked as obsolete :

The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN.
Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.
See the raw(8) manpage for more details.

The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7
kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) x with the O_DIRECT flag.

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Old 09-14-2004, 07:22 AM   #5
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out pu is:

CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW is not set
CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=y
CONFIG_MAX_RAW_DEVS=256
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m

rc.hotplug is enabled...

The use of this dev is obsolete: now, to communicate direct to disk, it can be used O_DIRECT directive.
But this directive must be included into source code (with open()) and I can't modify it...
 
Old 09-14-2004, 09:59 AM   #6
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- Have you a /sys directory ?
- I presume your rc.udev is executable...

At least, I would attempt to recompile kernel with CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER as module, don't know if that will help though.
 
Old 09-14-2004, 01:08 PM   #7
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Sure... sysfs is mounted and rc.udev is started at boot...

I'll try to ricompile with raw dev as module....
I think there's some misconfiguration in udev... baut I don't know how to solve this problem...
Thx for your help!
 
  


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