Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422910AbWJaHcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:32:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422914AbWJaHcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:32:35 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:27376 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422910AbWJaHce (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:32:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bJVnkjUvgF5u4EOGirGFFwgOP6pQm+gwwMD7YH1yTZwj6myWLyL6aNtFmfPswsWCm ydZav/YINN/WMWEAHaOHQ== Message-ID: <4546FB79.1060607@google.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:30:01 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Mike Galbraith , Cornelia Huck , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors 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> <20061031065912.GA13465@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20061031065912.GA13465@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1315 Lines: 30 Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:37:47PM -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. > > Merely change CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED to be set to yes, and it should > all work just fine. Doesn't anyone read the Kconfig help entries for > new kernel options? 1. This doesn't fix it. 2. Breaking things by default with an option to unbreak them is not the finest of plans ;-) M. - 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/