From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932167AbXDZCxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754691AbXDZCxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:38 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:37348 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754689AbXDZCxh (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:53:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tejun Heo Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" , 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: <20070425195326.dba3ab2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <46300DDC.1070805@gmail.com> References: <462EE4B7.6000708@gmail.com> <1177512528.4856.15.camel@daplas> <1177544702.4668.9.camel@daplas> <1177549323.4685.3.camel@daplas> <20070425181302.ebae7481.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46300DDC.1070805@gmail.com> 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 11:26:36 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Antonino, Andrew. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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-* > > This is the rename bug I wrote about in the other thread. ok. > Can you hold -mm2 off a bit? I'm almost done here. sure. I'm having much fun with all the obviously-wont-compile patches which have been checked into various subsystem trees in the past 24 hours. Please include simple instructions about which gregkh patches I should drop when this new set comes in.