Re: AoE driver problem on debian

hello ed!

> When you apply the patch below to the aoe6-30 driver, do you still see
> error messages?  These additions are based on Jason McMullan's aoeroot
> patch.

perfect - this seems to fix the issue!

Jun  6 19:38:45 aoe-client kernel: aoe: aoe_init: AoE v30 initialised.
Jun  6 19:38:45 aoe-client kernel: aoe: aoecmd_cfg_rsp: e0.0: setting 1024 
byte data frames on eth0
Jun  6 19:38:45 aoe-client kernel: aoe: ataid_complete: 000c2921d002 e0.0 
v400a has 8388608 sectors
Jun  6 19:38:45 aoe-client kernel:  /dev/etherd/e0.0:

> The devfs feature has been going away for a very long time, but it
> still has a few users.
what i don`t understand here:
aoe6-30 doesn`t seem to use devfs - and the patch is re-adding that.
so - why does the debian-kernel complain at all?

to make this work without patching - shouldn`t this go into aoe6-31 (via 
configure/compile switch) ?

thanks very much!

regards
roland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@...>
To: "roland" <devzero@...>
Cc: <aoetools-discuss@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: AoE driver problem on debian

> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:56:38PM +0200, roland wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> i tried debian 3.1 today. i installed a base system and updated kernel to
>> 2.6 ( 2.6.8-2-386 )
> ...
>> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to 
>> parent
>> for /disc
>> etherd/e0.0:
>
> The devfs feature has been going away for a very long time, but it
> still has a few users.
>
> ...
>> AoE problem ?
>> Debian 2.6.8 Kernel problem ?
>> both ?
>
> When you apply the patch below to the aoe6-30 driver, do you still see
> error messages?  These additions are based on Jason McMullan's aoeroot
> patch.
>
> -- 
>  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@...>
>