Re: [-next July 9 - s390 ] Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during qeth initalization

Martin Schwidefsky
2010-07-09T15:33:36Z

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:28:18 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 03:57:00PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>> With today's next(20100709) qeth interface fails to initialize
> >>> with following Badness message:
> >>> sysfs: symlink across ns_types 0.0.6000/net:eth0 -> net/eth0
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is this with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set?
> >>
> >> I think I may have made my warning check a little extra strict.
> >>
> > Yes.
> >
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
>
> Why do you have those options enabled? Does your userspace really
> require them? I want to remove those options soon, and it would be good
> to find out what is still relying on them.
>
> If you disable those options, does it then work?

The default configuration for s390 does not have the options enabled and
with a recent userspace everything works just fine. From my point of view
the two options can be removed.

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Martin.

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