From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Currently, the hotplug package supports st devices, but not osst devices (OnStream tape drives). It says "FIXME some tapes use 'osst' not 'st'" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.load osst module 2. 3. Actual Results: no {n}osstX device nodes are created Expected Results: crw-rw---- 1 root disk 206, 0 Dec 23 08:28 /dev/osst0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 206, 128 Dec 23 08:28 /dev/nosst0 Additional info: This is one of a set of changes needed for sysfs/hotplug/udev support of osst. Another is bug 143568 on udev for the permissions to be assigned. The third is that the osst driver needs sysfs support - watch linux-kernel for that to be submitted next.
Created attachment 109074 [details] this patch will implement osst support for hotplug
Does this actually *require* the sysfs changes in the driver to work?
It is safe to make the proposed change, but it won't work (= actually create the /dev nodes) until the osst driver is updated. I've got this working, and I'll be submitting the osst patch to the linux-kernel and linux-scsi mailing lists soon.
Required osst kernel patches are now in Andrew Morton's 2.6.10-mm1.
Please send upstream to linux-hotplug-devel.net as well.
Added in 2004_09_23-1.