Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

Andrew Morton
2007-06-08T08:05:10Z

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

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n:
Can't open /dev/sdb6 (root partition)

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch not applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y:
Happy camper

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch not applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n:
Still happy