| Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:34:20 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:34:25 -0700
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: >> >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187 >> Subject : Carrier detection failed in dhcpcd when link is up >> Submitter : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> >> Date : 2010-06-12 15:15 (27 days old) >> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/10708f37ae729baba9b67bd134c3720709d4ae62 >> Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > David? This bisects to a networking commit. Doesn't look sensible, but > what do I know?
My suspicion is that dhcpd uses netlink to dump the info of the available links, and due to some bug gets confused with the new 64-bit statistic netlink attribute being there now.
That shouldn't happen, applications should just ignore the attributes which they don't understand.
I'll try to find a second to have a look at this. -- 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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