"mdev -s" fails to create /dev entries

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 06 July 2008 16:06, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> In particular /sys/block/loop* are the symlinks and mdev -s ceased to
> mknod /dev/loop*.

Are you sure?

# ls -l /sys/block/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 hdb
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop0
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop1
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop2
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop3
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop4
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop5
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop6
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 loop7
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram0
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram1
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram10
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram11
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram12
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram13
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram14
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram15
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram2
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram3
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram4
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram5
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram6
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram7
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram8
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 ram9
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root            0 Jul  6 15:27 sda

# uname -a
Linux shadow 2.6.26-rc8 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 5 16:24:08 CEST 2008 x86_64 unknown

Kernel .config is attached.
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