netdev - Re: [2.6.21 patch] unconditionally enable SYSFS

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Message-ID: <20070306040350.GA25783@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:03:50 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yi.zhu@...el.com, jketreno@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.21 patch] unconditionally enable SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:39:47PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > If so, can you disable the option and strace it to see what program is
> > trying to access what?  That will put the
> > HAL/NetworkManager/libsysfs/distro script finger pointing to rest pretty
> > quickly :)
> 
> Ok, I've got straces of both good and bad (>5M each). Filtered out
> random pointer values and the like, diffed, and filtered for /sys/,
> and the result's still 1.5M. What should I be looking for?

Failures when trying to read from /sys/class/net/

Or opening the directory and iterating over the subdirs in there.  Or
something like that.

But the /sys/class/net/ stuff should hopefully help narrow it down.

thanks,

greg k-h
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