linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

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Message-Id: <1162277642.5970.4.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:54:02 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:37 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:14 +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > 
> >> Maybe the initscripts have problems coping with the new layout
> >> (symlinks instead of real devices)?
> > 
> > SuSE's /sbin/getcfg for one uses libsysfs, which apparently doesn't
> > follow symlinks (bounces off symlink and does nutty stuff instead).  If
> > any of the boxen you're having troubles with use libsysfs in their init
> > stuff, that's likely the problem.
> 
> If that is what's happening, then the problem is breaking previously
> working boxes by changing a userspace API. I don't know exactly which
> patch broke it, but reverting all Greg's patches (except USB) from
> -mm fixes the issue.

I just straced /sbin/getcfg again, and confirmed that that is indeed
what is still happening here.  It's a known issue (for SuSE at least).

	-Mike

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