Re: networking probs in next-20081203

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> x86_64, CONFIG_E1000E=y.
> 
> Current Linus mainline is OK, but with linux-next I'm seeing the following:
> 
> - During boot I see a "cannot open /proc/net/dev" fly past.  But when
>   it gets to the login prompt, I can read /proc/net/dev.

I _suspect_ it might me something with /proc/net changes (again) and initcall
ordering.

Andrew, as rejectless quick test, you can do

	git checkout -f 26b0d981e7dd1d5b4852ed5719bd1388c7994163	# sic

which is the last tree merged before proc tree in that next tree.

> - Networking won't come up.  `ifup eth0' says "determining ip address
>   ...  failed", and the failure is immediate.
> 
> - eth0 appears in the ifconfig oputput as normal - it just won't come up.
> 
> - nothing interesting in dmesg
> 
> 
> Here's the dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-dead-net.txt
> (that dmesg was generated with E1000=y, E1000E=y, but that doesn't seem
> to matter)
> 
> The .config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-dead-net.txt

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