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Message-Id: <20070608003118.b8334635.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:31:18 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:15:25 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:59:53 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:52:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:43:42 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > >  Fixed in mkinitrd-6.0.9-6 , which I'll build now and push to 
> > > > > >  updates-testing.  Thanks for getting my attention here.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Great, Andrew, can you please reenable the block-device patch that is in
> > > > > my tree now that the problem has been solved?
> > > > 
> > > > I think we're screwed, aren't we?  Everyone needs to upgrade mkinitrd to be
> > > > able to boot the kernel?  Not viable :(
> > > > 
> > > > For example, what about my two-year-old yellowdog machine?
> > > 
> > > Enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and it should all work just fine.  That's
> > > what Michal said worked for him.
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually, it _was_ enabled.
> > 
> > Ho hum, I'll have a poke at it this evening.
> 
> Yeah, that sounds odd, it should have worked.

yup, yellowdog 4.1 on a mac g5:

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y:
	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000552.jpg

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n:
	Can't open /dev/sdb6  (root partition)

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch not applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y:
	Happy camper

gregkh-driver-block-device.patch not applied, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n:
	Still happy



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