Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:59:12 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors |
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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?
thanks,
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