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I'm going to post this question here, and it may be OT. If so, please tell |
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me where to put it. Perhaps something such as devfsd, hotplug-base or some |
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other component needs to be rebuilt against the 2.6 kernel source, or |
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perhaps this problem needs to be in bugs.gentoo.org. Perhaps one of you |
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kind and helpful gentoo devs who haunt this list can point me in the right |
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direction. |
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I have a digital camera which connects to my Linux desktop system via a USB |
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port. Under kernel 2.4.20-r9, when the camera is connected, devfsd creates |
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/dev/scsi/host4 (there is already a valid host1, host2 and host3). |
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/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 is the CF card in the camera, and |
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can be read as a FAT filesystem drive. When the camera is turned off and |
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disconnected, the file heirarchy under /scsi/host4 remains there, except for |
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part1, the actual CF card. I can manage the mounting and unmounting of this |
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partition with devfs.conf and friends. If the camera is re-connected, |
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/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 comes back into being, no problem. |
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This is as it should be. |
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With kernel 2.6.8-r10 the situation is fubar. Each time the camera is |
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turned off and on, another file heirarchy is created under /dev/scsi for the |
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camera, and the previous /scsi/host* trees created when the camera was |
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connected previously remain, but contain no devices. I've had this process |
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all the way up to /scsi/host15 by turning the camera off and on a dozen |
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times or so. |
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Needless to say, this plays hell with trying to script anything to mount the |
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camera and CF card in /etc/devfsd.conf or /etc/devfs.d/*. |
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Should I file this as a bug, or are there things I should try to rebuild or |
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reconfigure before declaring it Gentoo's problem and not mine? |
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