From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:59:10 +0000 Subject: Re: wait_for_sysfs needs an update Message-Id: <20041018145910.GD6821@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <200410180958.34352.david@dfoerster.de> In-Reply-To: <200410180958.34352.david@dfoerster.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:42:04PM +0200, David Förster wrote: > It's the prism2_usb module from linux-wlan-ng. (linux-wlan.org). If you don't see a "device" file with "ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0", please ask the author of the driver to add the symlinks creation. It is for net devices in most cases only one line in the driver code calling the macro: SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &dev->dev); Thanks, Kay > On Monday 18 October 2004 15:20, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:58:30AM +0200, David Förster wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I got this log message while trying to get my wlan usb stick to work. > > > > > > Oct 17 22:06:15 localhost wait_for_sysfs[6888]: error: wait_for_sysfs > needs an > > > update to handle the device '/class/net/wlan0' properly, please report to > > > > > > > What kernel module drives your card? I expect that the /class/net/wlan0 > > directory misses the "device" symlink. This should be created by the > > driver and fixed in the module, for the message to go away. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel