linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7: udevd compatibility issue?

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Message-ID: <47ED6C93.2000809@rtr.ca>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:09:23 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: udevd compatibility issue?

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:50:06PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Having coerced 2.6.25-rc7 onto one notebook here,
>> we're now working on the other one.
>>
>> This one is the Dell Lattitude X1 sub-notebook, with Intel everything and 
>> 2GB.
>>
>> On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" 
>> messages.
>> The messages claim "this will be ignored in a future kernel", but this is 
>> not a "future kernel".
>>
>> So, what purpose do they have in 2.6.25-rc7 ?
> 
> To tell you nicely that your userspace scripts are doing stupid things
> :)
..

How about having the message *include* the offending value that was
attempted to be written?

This would make such problems much easier to track down and fix.

-ml
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