linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support

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Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:57:07 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	satyam@...radead.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support

Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> writes:

> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:47:51 -0600,
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> writes:
>> 
>> > My udev failed to create /dev/dasd* so it cannot mount root :( I'm
>> > currently trying to find out what causes this, may take some time...
>> 
>> Oh weird.
>> 
>> No great surprise that something goofed up given how many
>> patches were involved.  Still there shouldn't have been
>> any user visible differences in the patchset.
>> 
>> If you can narrow down which patch caused the problem that would be
>> great.
>
> Got it: It's patch 6, the readdir simplification.
>
> (The udev on that guest is ancient (063)...)

Ok.  That is weird.

Does it depend on the order in which the dentries are returned from
readdir?

Unless I made a really stupid error otherwise the two versions
of readdir should have the same semantics.

Eric
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