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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. 2. Breaking things by default with an option to unbreak them is not the finest of plans ;-) M. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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