--- busybox-1.21.0/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ busybox-1.21.0-mdev/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -661,6 +661,8 @@ static void make_device(char *device_nam
 			if (mknod(node_name, rule->mode | type, makedev(major, minor)) && errno != EEXIST)
 				bb_perror_msg("can't create '%s'", node_name);
 			if (ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_CONF) {
+				if (G.verbose)
+					bb_error_msg("chmod: %o chown: %u:%u", rule->mode, rule->ugid.uid, rule->ugid.gid);
 				chmod(node_name, rule->mode);
 				chown(node_name, rule->ugid.uid, rule->ugid.gid);
 			}
@@ -813,6 +815,7 @@ static void load_firmware(const char *fi
 		full_write(loading_fd, "-1", 2);
 
  out:
+	xchdir("/dev");
 	if (ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP) {
 		close(firmware_fd);
 		close(loading_fd);
@@ -919,11 +922,13 @@ int mdev_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, cha
 		}
 
 		{
-			int logfd = open("/dev/mdev.log", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND);
+			int logfd = open("mdev.log", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND);
 			if (logfd >= 0) {
 				xmove_fd(logfd, STDERR_FILENO);
 				G.verbose = 1;
-				bb_error_msg("seq: %s action: %s", seq, action);
+				if (seq)
+					applet_name = xasprintf("%s[%s]", applet_name, seq);
+				bb_error_msg("action: %s", action);
 			}
 		}