Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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       Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:14:37 +0100
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On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:28 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:22 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:09:54AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > That's terminal here atm:  kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c:165!
> > > 
> > > I did have it set, but had to disable it to not panic.
> > 
> > I think there are two different issues here.  That kernel config option
> > should not be causing an oops in mm code.
> > 
> > Can you bisect the different patches to see which one causes the
> > problem?
> 
> I'm not bisecting, but I'm making progress anyway.  Definitely seems to
> be one of the driver-core-* patches.  I'm applying things to 2.6.19-rc3
> virgin group wise, and as soon as I applied those, wham.  
> 
> With only [1] *acpi*, gregkh-driver*, and gregkk-pci* and all was well
> (except it didn't cure my eth0 woes).
> 
> Still poking at it.

Seems it's driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch

Tomorrow, I'll revert that alone from 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 to confirm... for
now, it's family time.

	-Mike

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