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

Greg KH
2006-10-31T06:59:46Z

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?

thanks,

greg k-h