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| -rw-r--r-- | util-linux/mdev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c index 4ac5c43..dd95229 100644 --- a/util-linux/mdev.c +++ b/util-linux/mdev.c @@ -96,13 +96,11 @@ static void make_device(char *path, int delete) /* Determine device name, type, major and minor */ device_name = bb_basename(path); /* http://kernel.org/doc/pending/hotplug.txt says that only - * "/sys/block/..." is for block devices. "/sys/bus" etc is not! - * Since kernel 2.6.25 block devices are also in /sys/class/block. */ - /* TODO: would it be acceptable to just use strstr(path, "/block/")? */ - if (strncmp(&path[5], "class/block/"+6, 6) != 0 - && strncmp(&path[5], "class/block/", 12) != 0) - type = S_IFCHR; - else + * "/sys/block/..." is for block devices. "/sys/bus" etc is not. + * But since 2.6.25 block devices are also in /sys/class/block. + * We use strstr("/block/") to forestall future surprises. */ + type = S_IFCHR; + if (strstr(path, "/block/")) type = S_IFBLK; if (ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_CONF) { |