Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

Greg KH
2007-06-08T15:52:16Z

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:15:25 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:59:53 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:52:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:43:42 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > Fixed in mkinitrd-6.0.9-6 , which I'll build now and push to
> > > > > > > updates-testing. Thanks for getting my attention here.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Great, Andrew, can you please reenable the block-device patch that is in
> > > > > > my tree now that the problem has been solved?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we're screwed, aren't we? Everyone needs to upgrade mkinitrd to be
> > > > > able to boot the kernel? Not viable :(
> > > > >
> > > > > For example, what about my two-year-old yellowdog machine?
> > > >
> > > > Enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and it should all work just fine. That's
> > > > what Michal said worked for him.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Actually, it _was_ enabled.
> > >
> > > Ho hum, I'll have a poke at it this evening.
> >
> > Yeah, that sounds odd, it should have worked.
>
> yup, yellowdog 4.1 on a mac g5:
>
> gregkh-driver-block-device.patch applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y:
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000552.jpg

Ugh.

Kay, any thoughts? Does switchroot need to have the --movedev option
removed for some reason?

thanks,

greg k-h