--- busybox-svn21977/util-linux/mdev.c	2008-05-14 15:20:18.000000000 +1000
+++ busybox/util-linux/mdev.c	2008-05-14 16:24:22.000000000 +1000
@@ -72,12 +72,10 @@
 	/* 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
+   if (strstr(path, "/block/")
 	        type = S_IFBLK;
+	else
+	        type = S_IFCHR;
 
 	if (ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_CONF) {
 		FILE *fp;