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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:51:34 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:36, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:31:15 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:52, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> >> and the box still won't boot.
>> >
>> > Ick, that sucks.
>> >
>> > What kernel was FC6 based on originally?
>> >
>> > Kay, I thought that Fedora had fixed the "can't find root" issue for
>> > this type of sysfs configuation a long time ago. __Or was that something
>> > else for PPC that I am thinking of?
>>
>> It was fixed, and it's weird bug in nash.
>>
>> If Andrew is still doing the same thing as years ago, he does not
>> update the initramfs image, he boots with the old original initramfs
>> along with the new kernel. :)
>
> I run
>
>        VERS=$(make kernelrelease 2>/dev/null)
>        <copy vmlinux>
>        /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --install

Ah, I see.

It might be, that the fix only hit FC7, or Andrew did not install the
updates. The original mail about the nash problem is here:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/209

Kay
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