Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver - one more

Fabio Comolli
2007-02-11T14:52:52Z

Hi.
I can see this problem too. I have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set.

It happens only with SD cards, with MMC everything is OK.

Fabio

On 2/11/07, Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au> wrote:
> Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Alex Dubov wrote:
> >> One more problem (you may already know about it) - I was contacted by somebody from the hald
> >> project and indeed I can confirm that on 2.6.20 kernel hald fails to take action on card
> >> insertion. I can't see anything in my code so this may be a general mmc problem.
> >> The problem is described here:
> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-January/006960.html
> >>
> >
> > Odd. This might be the whole sysfs restructuring thing causing problems. Can you
> > check if that user has CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED on?
>
> I've tested both with and without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED on, both fail the same way.
> hald reports that the device has no parent and decides to ignore it.
>
> I've also tested both combinations against hal from ubuntu 6.06LTS and a more recent version
>
> brad@bklaptop2:~$ hald --version
> HAL package version: 0.5.8.1
>
> Again with and without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and all combinations fail.
> Hal appears to go looking for /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1/range
>
> When it can't find it, it then looks for the parent of that to check what would be
> /sys/block/mmcblk0/range, Complains it can't find a parent for /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 and just
> proceeds to ignore the event.
>
> Brad
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