linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

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Message-Id: <1196983444.2829.38.camel@lov.site>
Date:	Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:24:04 +0100
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:12 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:04:12 +0100, Kay Sievers said:
> 
> > What's the value of SYSFS_DEPRECATED? Care to set it to yes, if it isn't,
> > and try again?
> 
> I *knew* there was a D'Oh! error in here. ;)
> 
> Bisection is fast closing in on gregkh-driver-block-device.patch, which broke
> my LVM almost the exact same way the *last* time it showed up in -mm ;)

Oh, it must not, if SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y is set. I hope we fixed all
issues. Please let us know if it does not work, then we will need to
look into it.

> > A fix for LVM to handle symlinks instead of directories is in the LVM
> > CVS tree, but there wasn't a release since August.
> 
> I seem to recall it was 'nash' rather than LVM that had the indigestion the
> last time around.

I think that a recent nash should work, even with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n.
Anyway, nothing should change when SYSFS_DEPRECATED set, nash works fine
here, with that.

Kay

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