devinfo(3) problem...

[victor cruceru]

Hi Daniel,
Yes, this is the fix. And yes, I think that the bug was reported (at
least on a mailing list...)
BTW: I dare to suggest to fully upgrade your system to the "latest"
6.0, it is a huge step forward from 5.4. Before doing this you may
want to give it a try by booting from a CD and check  that your hw is
fully functional (and detected).

To check if it is your mistake or another bug in libdevinfo, you may
want to run the associated tool (man -k devinfo).
Hope this helps.

On 10/25/05, Daniel Rudy <dr2867 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> At about the time of 10/24/2005 7:28 AM, victor cruceru stated the
> following:
> > Daniel,
> > What is the OS version you are using when this is happening?
> > Did you try to update the libdevinfo (using cvsup for example) to a
> > newer version?
> > I think that under the original 5.4 it is a bug in devinfo(4) with the
> > described behaviour below.
>
> I'm running 5.4-RELEASE.
>
> When you mentioned that it might be a bug, I went and looked at
> /usr/src/lib/libdevinfo/devinfo.c using the cvs web depository.  I found
> that devinfo_generation = 0 was added to the end of the devinfo_free
> function starting at line 367.  I added the code and recompiled just
> that library, and now everything seems to be working ok, except now I'm
> getting a bunch of garbage on the serial number of the USB flash drive.
>  I'm not sure if it's my code, or if it's a bug in the library.
>
> --
> Daniel Rudy
>


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