[HEADS UP] change in devfs path matching logic

[Andriy Gapon]

on 29/08/2013 16:03 Toomas Aas said the following:
> 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.

Jase,
thank you very much for testing!

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

This is now committed to stable/8.

-- 
Andriy Gapon