Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422868AbWJaHOR (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:14:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422875AbWJaHOR (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:14:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39296 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422868AbWJaHOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:14:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:13:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Mike Galbraith Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Cornelia Huck , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors Message-ID: <20061031071347.GA7027@suse.de> References: <20061029160002.29bb2ea1.akpm@osdl.org> <45461977.3020201@shadowen.org> <45461E74.1040408@google.com> <20061030084722.ea834a08.akpm@osdl.org> <454631C1.5010003@google.com> <45463481.80601@shadowen.org> <20061030211432.6ed62405@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1162276206.5959.9.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <4546EF3B.1090503@google.com> <1162277642.5970.4.camel@Homer.simpson.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1162277642.5970.4.camel@Homer.simpson.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 31 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:54:02AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:37 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:14 +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > > > >> Maybe the initscripts have problems coping with the new layout > > >> (symlinks instead of real devices)? > > > > > > SuSE's /sbin/getcfg for one uses libsysfs, which apparently doesn't > > > follow symlinks (bounces off symlink and does nutty stuff instead). If > > > any of the boxen you're having troubles with use libsysfs in their init > > > stuff, that's likely the problem. > > > > If that is what's happening, then the problem is breaking previously > > working boxes by changing a userspace API. I don't know exactly which > > patch broke it, but reverting all Greg's patches (except USB) from > > -mm fixes the issue. > > I just straced /sbin/getcfg again, and confirmed that that is indeed > what is still happening here. It's a known issue (for SuSE at least). Ick, is this 10.1? Or 10.2? Or something else? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/