35273 – hdparm rc script is noisy w/o devfs

Bug 35273 - hdparm rc script is noisy w/o devfs

Summary: hdparm rc script is noisy w/o devfs

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Low trivial
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2003-12-07 11:04 UTC by Radoslaw Szkodzinski
Modified:	2004-01-25 15:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2003-12-07 11:04:04 UTC

/etc/init.d/hdparm on Gentoo system w/o devfs complains about not being able to find /dev/discs - this trivial patch fixes it:
(sorry for messed up modification dates)

--- /etc/init.d/hdparm.orig       2003-12-03 20:01:17.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/init.d/hdparm    2003-12-06 10:20:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
        drives=""
        cdroms=""
 
-       for i in `dir /dev/discs`
+       for i in `dir /dev/discs 2>/dev/null`
        do
                if [ ! -n "`ls -la /dev/discs/${i} | grep scsi`" ]
                then

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-08 06:16:07 UTC

rather than just piping everything into /dev/null why dont we update the script to check to handle devfs and an old school dev setup ? (hd[abcde])

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-01-25 15:26:55 UTC

ah whatever, added the patch