BDI patches break installation and browsing

[Kay Sievers]

2008/10/28 Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de>:
> On Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> After the BDI patchset was merged, my device tree has gone from 136 to
>> 188 devices. I've also got 24 more "Mass storage devices" in nautilus
>> and anaconda.
>
> Looks as if the loop/ram devices got in. We can simply prevent adding those
> devices.
>
> See attached patch.
>
>> lshal diff attached.
>
> lshal diff don't help since the possition of a device can get changed. Please
> attach both lshal outputs and a complete verbose log from startup git hal.
>
>> Can we revert these patches please?
>
> No, we need it to get cciss based storage devices running with recent kernels.
>
>> I don't think there was any review
>> done, they are not exactly trivial. Why do we need to expose BDI
>> devices anyway?
>
> Yes for e.g. cciss block devices.

What do you need bdi for? These are kernel memory management backing
devices, and have no meaning for the actual blockdevice's device. They
should not be in HAL, I guess.

Kay