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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:36:47 -0700
From:      Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration
Message-ID:  <4CB4646F.3000703@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101012081744.GA48485@jh>
References:  <LA593D$584FAABD3BF6073282A094BECDF03362@libero.it> <20101012081744.GA48485@jh>

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  Good workaround, still a nasty surprising bug.

> On 2010-10-11, barbara wrote:
>> The panic is caused by:
>> g_dev_taste(): make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=ext2fs//, error=22)
>> as I have a linux partition (I swear, it's for my mom!) on the same machine.
>> As I don't care about that partition (being ext4 I can't even mount
>> it), is there any solution other then applying the patch after every
>> csup?
> If you don't need ext2fs labels you can put the following line to
> /boot/loader.conf as a workaround:
>
> kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable=0
>




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