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| -rw-r--r-- | util-linux/mdev.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c index c4c4350a4..c8d603bcf 100644 --- a/util-linux/mdev.c +++ b/util-linux/mdev.c @@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ static void make_device(char *path, int delete) /* Determine device name, type, major and minor */ device_name = bb_basename(path); - type = (path[5] == 'c' ? S_IFCHR : S_IFBLK); /* "/sys/[c]lass"? */ + /* http://kernel.org/doc/pending/hotplug.txt says that only + * "/sys/block/..." is for block devices. "sys/bus" etc is not! */ + type = (strncmp(&path[5], "block/", 6) == 0 ? S_IFBLK : S_IFCHR); if (ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_CONF) { FILE *fp; |