From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754620AbXDZBNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:13:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754621AbXDZBNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:13:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:34160 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754620AbXDZBNG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:13:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:13:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: Tejun Heo , Miles Lane , LKML Subject: Re: Nonfunctional ethernet (was Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected) Message-Id: <20070425181302.ebae7481.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1177549323.4685.3.camel@daplas> References: <462EE4B7.6000708@gmail.com> <1177512528.4856.15.camel@daplas> <1177544702.4668.9.camel@daplas> <1177549323.4685.3.camel@daplas> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:02:02 +0800 "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > I can bring up the network manually using ifconfig. It's opensuse's > rcnetwork script that fails to bring the network up. Entries > in /sys/class/net are still bogus. > > This kernel is now usable to me, I'll start bisection later today if > nobody has an answer. rc7-mm1 is hardly worth bothering with. Quite a few really bad ones have now been fixed and I'll try to get rc7-mm2 out within the next 12 hours (I assume a 76-hour debug session won't be needed this time). But I don't think the sysfs changes in Greg's tree have been updated, so things will probably still fail in that area. A suitable bisection starting pair would be around gregkh-driver-*