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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: udevd compatibility issue?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:09:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ED6C93.2000809@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080328202226.GA16799@suse.de>

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:50:06PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Having coerced 2.6.25-rc7 onto one notebook here,
>> we're now working on the other one.
>>
>> This one is the Dell Lattitude X1 sub-notebook, with Intel everything and 
>> 2GB.
>>
>> On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" 
>> messages.
>> The messages claim "this will be ignored in a future kernel", but this is 
>> not a "future kernel".
>>
>> So, what purpose do they have in 2.6.25-rc7 ?
> 
> To tell you nicely that your userspace scripts are doing stupid things
> :)
..

How about having the message *include* the offending value that was
attempted to be written?

This would make such problems much easier to track down and fix.

-ml

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 18:50 2.6.25-rc7: udevd compatibility issue? Mark Lord
2008-03-28 20:22 ` Greg KH
2008-03-28 22:09   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-03-28 23:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.25-rc7] fix uevent action-string regression Mark Lord

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