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From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [-next July 9 - s390 ] Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during qeth initalization
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:26:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3746B8.9050303@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100709142818.GB9041@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 03:57:00PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
>   
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>     
>>>> With today's next(20100709) qeth interface fails to initialize
>>>> with following Badness message:
>>>>     sysfs: symlink across ns_types 0.0.6000/net:eth0 -> net/eth0
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Is this with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set?
>>>
>>> I think I may have made my warning check a little extra strict.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes.
>>
>> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
>> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
>>     
>
> Why do you have those options enabled?  Does your userspace really
> require them?  I want to remove those options soon, and it would be good
> to find out what is still relying on them.
>
> If you disable those options, does it then work?
>   
Not sure when and why i enabled these options.

Without them i don't see any problem (including the badness).

Thanks
-Sachin

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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-- 

---------------------------------
Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100709150117.51612026.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2010-07-09  9:45 ` [-next July 9 - s390 ] Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during qeth initalization Sachin Sant
2010-07-09 10:08   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 10:27     ` Sachin Sant
2010-07-09 10:39       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-09 14:28       ` Greg KH
2010-07-09 15:33         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-07-09 15:59           ` Greg KH
2010-07-09 15:56         ` Sachin Sant [this message]

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