Bug 69953

Summary:	udev does not automatically create /dev/parport devices when ppdev is loaded
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Hsia <xanderhsia>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) <gregkh>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Hsia 2004-11-03 10:01:44 UTC

Compiled parport, parport_pc, and ppdev as kernel modules (For use in vmware). Loading ppdev autoloads parport and parport_pc but no corresponding devices show up in /dev. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unload parport, partport_pc, and ppdev modules
2. modprobe ppdev
3. udevstart (just in case the modprobe didn't do the trick)

Actual Results:  
Expect /dev/parport* devices to show up in /dev with appropriate permissions


Expected Results:  
No /dev/parport* devices at all

Using udev-042 
#emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041021-r0,
2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.5
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-03 16:32:18 UTC

This is a kernel issue, it's not exporting the proper sysfs entries.

Go create a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org so that I can assign it to the proper
kernel developer to fix this.  Start off by assigning it to greg@kroah.com
so that I can take care of it.