Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-31T07:32:35Z

Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

1. This doesn't fix it.
2. Breaking things by default with an option to unbreak them is not
the finest of plans ;-)

M.