From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: networking probs in next-20081203 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:14:36 +0300 Message-ID: <20081204151436.GA18783@x200.localdomain> References: <20081203171834.86903d39.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081203171834.86903d39.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/