linux-kernel - Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT

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Date:	Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:37:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:31:17 -0800

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:26:39PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure the following changeset is to blame:
> > 
> > commit edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf
> > Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> > Date:   Mon May 21 22:08:01 2007 +0200
> > 
> >     Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices
> >     
> >     This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
> >     flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
> >     directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
> >     to the disks.
> 
> So I'm guessing if you revert this it works?

Unfortunately that's not so simple to test because afterwards there
are changesets where all the files under block/ got renamed and as
such I can't just revert that single patch from the tip.

> Do you have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=Y or N?

I have SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
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