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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:22:01 +0300 From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> To: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3] Fix /proc/net breakage On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:17:28PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:41:45PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:40:56PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:23:42AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > (commit 2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416) > > > > > > > > > > This seems to have broken the use of /proc/bus/usb as a mountpoint. It > > > > > always appears empty now, whatever's supposed to be mounted there. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes. Denis and Eric are tossing around competing patches but afaik nobody > > > > is happy with any of them. Guys, could we get this sorted soonish please? > > > > > > "Soonish" being rather earlier than 20071227? > > > 'cause it's still throwing a fit for me on 2.6.24-rc6-mm1(!) (plus hotfix), > > > nothing visible in /proc/bus/usb, thus WLAN driver won't probe > > > anything. > > > > Patch which restores usual behaviour was merged in 2.6.24-rc5 > > (3790ee4bd86396558eedd86faac1052cb782e4e1 "proc: remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate") > > Via a kerneltrap.org article (problematic internet setup here currently, > non-C&P text terminal only) I could see that this is the patch which > removes the d_revalidate member and the corresponding proc_revalidate_dentry(). > And this is the state that my 2.6.24-rc_six_-mm1 tree is in already. OK. > So either it didn't help here or it broke again by some later change or > there's some dumb PEBKAC error here. Do you by chance forgot CONFIG_USB_?HCI_HCD=y ? I see empty usbfs here if they are deselected. > > so no hotfixes are needed. I just checked with bind mounting / to > > /proc/bus/usb -- it works. > > OK, I'll try to re-check manual, raw, bare-metal mounting (bind etc.) soonish. > > "CONFIG_NETNS" as mentioned in the patch description actually seems > to be "CONFIG_NET_NS", BTW. > (which I DON'T have set at the moment, if this happens to make a difference) I shouldn't. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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