Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:03:50 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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	yi.zhu@intel.com, jketreno@linux.intel.com,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.21 patch] unconditionally enable SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:39:47PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > If so, can you disable the option and strace it to see what program is
> > trying to access what?  That will put the
> > HAL/NetworkManager/libsysfs/distro script finger pointing to rest pretty
> > quickly :)
> 
> Ok, I've got straces of both good and bad (>5M each). Filtered out
> random pointer values and the like, diffed, and filtered for /sys/,
> and the result's still 1.5M. What should I be looking for?

Failures when trying to read from /sys/class/net/

Or opening the directory and iterating over the subdirs in there.  Or
something like that.

But the /sys/class/net/ stuff should hopefully help narrow it down.

thanks,

greg k-h