linux-kernel - Re: [-next July 9 - s390 ] Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during qeth initalization

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Message-ID: <20100709173326.72674aea@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:33:26 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [-next July 9 - s390 ] Badness at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 during
 qeth initalization

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:28:18 -0700
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 03:57:00PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>> With today's next(20100709) qeth interface fails to initialize
> >>> with following Badness message:
> >>>     sysfs: symlink across ns_types 0.0.6000/net:eth0 -> net/eth0
> >>>     
> >>
> >> Is this with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED set?
> >>
> >> I think I may have made my warning check a little extra strict.
> >>   
> > Yes.
> >
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
> 
> Why do you have those options enabled?  Does your userspace really
> require them?  I want to remove those options soon, and it would be good
> to find out what is still relying on them.
> 
> If you disable those options, does it then work?

The default configuration for s390 does not have the options enabled and
with a recent userspace everything works just fine. From my point of view
the two options can be removed.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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