From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nik Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 03:00:01 +0000 Subject: wait_for_sysfs on Fedora Core 3 Message-Id: <42798C31.2020704@babel.homelinux.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I am porting a PCMCIA network driver, which I did not originally write, from kernel 2.4 to 2.6. I am at a stage where the driver works on a Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.667) machine, and I can communicate through it, but I see the following error message in the system log: > wait_for_sysfs[5466]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update > to handle the device '/class/net/ibut0' properly (no device symlink) > or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please > report to The driver registers a new ethernet device (interface) using its own family of names. The default family is "ibut", and so the first in that family is "ibut0". The two calls I have used to register this interface in the 2.6 port are: alloc_etherdev(...) and register_netdev(...) I have been unable to determine if I should fix this message by updating some config files to recognise the "ibut" interfaces; or by changing something in the driver; or whether I should change/update something in sysfs/udev on the machine. When searching he logs I also found the following similar entry: > wait_for_sysfs[12532]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an > update to handle the device '/class/net/tun0' properly (no device > symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be > fixed, please report to I presume this is caused by my recent installation of OpenVPN which uses the TUN interface. Again, I am able to communicate successfully through the TUN adaptor. Could someone please point me in the direction(s) in which I should proceed to fix these? All suggestions or comments gratefully received. Cheers! Nik. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ 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