Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760404AbXHHID7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:03:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752140AbXHHIDm (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:03:42 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:56813 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752074AbXHHIDj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:03:39 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, satyam@infradead.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, Tejun Heo , Linux Containers , gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support References: <11860582832964-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20070808093815.0935a18e@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070808095432.4a520735@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:57:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070808095432.4a520735@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (Cornelia Huck's message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:54:32 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 37 Cornelia Huck writes: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:47:51 -0600, > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> Cornelia Huck writes: >> >> > My udev failed to create /dev/dasd* so it cannot mount root :( I'm >> > currently trying to find out what causes this, may take some time... >> >> Oh weird. >> >> No great surprise that something goofed up given how many >> patches were involved. Still there shouldn't have been >> any user visible differences in the patchset. >> >> If you can narrow down which patch caused the problem that would be >> great. > > Got it: It's patch 6, the readdir simplification. > > (The udev on that guest is ancient (063)...) Ok. That is weird. Does it depend on the order in which the dentries are returned from readdir? Unless I made a really stupid error otherwise the two versions of readdir should have the same semantics. Eric - 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/