Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161497AbWJaHgx (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:36:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161520AbWJaHgw (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:36:52 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:42931 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161497AbWJaHgw (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:36:52 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors From: Mike Galbraith To: Greg KH Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Cornelia Huck , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox In-Reply-To: <20061031065912.GA13465@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> <20061031065912.GA13465@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:36:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1162280182.6416.16.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 32 On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:59 -0800, 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? There's another thread concerning that kaboom, and I think the culprit is known? -Mike - 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/