Re: Nonfunctional ethernet (was Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 + sysfs-oops-workaround.patch -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected)

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Hello, Antonino, Andrew.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:02:02 +0800 "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> 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.  Can you hold
-mm2 off a bit?  I'm almost done here.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun