Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422700AbWJaH7D (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:59:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422795AbWJaH7C (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:59:02 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:19892 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422700AbWJaH7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:59:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:58:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Martin J. Bligh" 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 Message-ID: <20061031075825.GA8913@suse.de> References: <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> <4546FB79.1060607@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4546FB79.1060607@google.com> 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: 1582 Lines: 39 On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:30:01PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > 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. I think acpi is now being fingered here, right? > 2. Breaking things by default with an option to unbreak them is not > the finest of plans ;-) Yes, I have now changed the default for that option to be on to help guide people even better than before. 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/