From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:44:58 +0200
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:23, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:25:21 +0200
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > > - It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely
> > > >   compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. 
> > > >   I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen.
> > > 
> > > It's not that bad, but unfortunately the networking doesn't work on my system
> > > (HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 w/ updates, 64-bit).  Apparently, the interfaces don't
> > > get configured (both tg3 and bcm43xx are affected).
> > 
> > Is there anything interesting in the dmesg output?
> > 
> > Perhaps an `strace -f ifup' or whatever would tell us what's failing.
> 
> FYI, it`s SuSE`s /sbin/getcfg binary that doesn't like the changes.  It
> sees /sys/class/net/eth0 as a symlink, and reels off into sys/block (?)
> looking for a directory.

It's a known problem. It's actually libsysfs' fault which somehow manages
to not support symlinks properly. Unfortunately getcfg made the mistake of using libsysfs
instead of accessing /sys directly

-Andi
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