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

Mike Galbraith
2006-10-31T18:14:58Z

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:28 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:22 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:09:54AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > That's terminal here atm: kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c:165!
> > >
> > > I did have it set, but had to disable it to not panic.
> >
> > I think there are two different issues here. That kernel config option
> > should not be causing an oops in mm code.
> >
> > Can you bisect the different patches to see which one causes the
> > problem?
>
> I'm not bisecting, but I'm making progress anyway. Definitely seems to
> be one of the driver-core-* patches. I'm applying things to 2.6.19-rc3
> virgin group wise, and as soon as I applied those, wham.
>
> With only [1] *acpi*, gregkh-driver*, and gregkk-pci* and all was well
> (except it didn't cure my eth0 woes).
>
> Still poking at it.

Seems it's driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch

Tomorrow, I'll revert that alone from 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 to confirm... for
now, it's family time.

-Mike