From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:05:08 +0000 Subject: Re: airo_cs in Fedora Core 3 test Message-Id: <20041106010508.GA24694@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20041105231206.GC1480@iodynamics.com> In-Reply-To: <20041105231206.GC1480@iodynamics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:12:06PM -0700, Doran Barton wrote: > Hey people, > > I'm running the 2.4.9-643 kernel for FC3t3 on a HP Pavilion zv5000z laptop > (AMD Athlon 64 3000). With the 2.4.8 kernel on FC2, I had no problem using > my Aironet 350 PCMCIA wireless network adapter, but there was no udev in > FC2. > > So, when I insert the card now, I get this in my messages file: > > Nov 5 14:49:29 moo kernel: eth1: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 11, io > 0x4100-0x413f > Nov 5 14:49:34 moo wait_for_sysfs[5906]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) > needs an update to handle the device '/class/net/eth1' properly (no device > symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, > please report to > Nov 5 14:49:34 moo wait_for_sysfs[5908]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) > needs an update to handle the device '/class/net/wifi0' properly (no device > symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, > please report to > > Could someone tell me if this a udev issue or a kernel issue? It is caused by the fact, that the driver of the card does not create the expected "device" symlink in the class device's sysfs representation, pointing to the physical device in sysfs. This symlink is necessary for e.g. modern hardware integration to match the virtual with the physical device. 1. PCMCIA-sysfs is not supported now, but already in the -mm kernel, so this should be fixed sooner than later. 2. The latest wait_for_sysfs in the udev package will not print any error for net devices. 3. Kernel 2.6.10* and later will add what we can expect in sysfs to the hotplug event, so we can handle that right, without useless waiting for the symlink and printing errors. o.k.? :) Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ 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