From: Christoph Hellwig disk_name() (and hence bdevname()) are now returning devfs-style device names when devfs is enabled. This is nice, but these names are very long, and they overflow the 32-char buffers which these functions use. The choices are: a) Use a bigger buffer (increase BDEVNAME_SIZE). This might be practical. But how big? b) return the name in kmalloced memory, make caller free it up. Yuk. c) Add a print_bdevname() thing and intersperse that amongst the printk's. This would work. d) Just print the non-devfs device name. That's what this patch does. fs/partitions/check.c | 13 ------------- 1 files changed, 13 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~disk_name-no-devfs fs/partitions/check.c --- 25/fs/partitions/check.c~disk_name-no-devfs 2003-05-02 02:11:04.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/partitions/check.c 2003-05-02 02:11:04.000000000 -0700 @@ -96,19 +96,6 @@ static int (*check_part[])(struct parsed char *disk_name(struct gendisk *hd, int part, char *buf) { -#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS - if (hd->devfs_name[0] != '\0') { - if (part) - snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s/part%d", - hd->devfs_name, part); - else if (hd->minors != 1) - snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s/disc", hd->devfs_name); - else - snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s", hd->devfs_name); - return buf; - } -#endif - if (!part) snprintf(buf, BDEVNAME_SIZE, "%s", hd->disk_name); else if (isdigit(hd->disk_name[strlen(hd->disk_name)-1])) _