[HEADS UP] change in devfs path matching logic

[Toomas Aas]

Hello!

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 Jase Thew <jase at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 29/08/2013 11:24, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 29/08/2013 10:47 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>> It looks like I should have done more investigation on the state  
>>> of devfs in
>>> stable/8 before MFC-ing the change.  There are several earlier big  
>>> commits that
>>> have not been MFC-ed.
>>> So, now I can either revert the MFC and be done with it.
>>> Or we can try to investigate the crash and see if it's easy to fix it.
>>
>>
>> In fact, I am not sure but I hope that the fix could be as simple as MFC-ing
>> r211847:
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=211847
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c?view=patch&r1=211847&r2=211846&pathrev=211847
>>
>
> I've merged that change, rebuilt the kernel and that appears to have  
> resolved the panic. Jails are now starting up correctly with devfs  
> rules being successfully applied.

Thanks a lot, I'll try this on Saturday when I get my hands on this  
8-STABLE system again.

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Toomas Aas