BDI patches break installation and browsing

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Tue Oct 28 14:59:05 PDT 2008


On Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 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. 

It was the only way to add the cciss blockdevices to the device tree on the 
test machine. But I check this again.

> They should not be in HAL, I guess.

I've reverted the changes for now. I come up with a new patch as soon as I've 
checked the machine again.

Danny




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