svn commit: r219400 - head/sys/geom/label

[Maxim Sobolev]

On 3/9/2011 7:19 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> On 2011-03-08, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> >  On 3/8/2011 9:36 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>>>> >  >>     Some linux distros put mount point into the ext2fs labels, such as '/', or
>>>>> >  >>>       '/boot', which confuses the devfs code and can cause userland programs to
>>>>> >  >>>       fail reading /dev/ext2fs directory with weird error code, such as any
>>>>> >  >>>       program that uses pwlib.
>> >
>> >  I have only observed this issue with 7.4.
> OK, good to know. Head version of devfs should not have the problems you
> described in the commit message.
>
>> >  It looks like r213526 might work as well, but unfortunately this
>> >  revision is not directly applicable to the 7-STABLE. Do you have any
>> >  plans to MFC it into 7.x?
> I don't have plans to MFC it to stable/7. r213526 is related to larger
> set of devfs changes I committed last year.

OK, so what should I do to resolve the issue in question? Should I go 
forward and MFC less generic patch to geom_label code to strip out the 
leading slashes from the ext2fs labels?

-Maxim