netdev - Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

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Message-Id: <1173142546.15891.63.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:55:46 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sid Boyce <g3vbv@...eyonder.co.uk>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, linux-pm@...ts.osdl.org,
	maxk@...lcomm.com, bluez-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Albert Hopkins <kernel@...duk.letterboxes.org>,
	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 19:35 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> > Subject    : wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/135
> > Submitter  : Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> > Caused-By  : Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> (?)
> >              commit 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 (?)
> > Handled-By : Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> > Status     : unknown
> 
> I really think this is a CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED issue (not being set),
> but want to get Matt confirm either way before saying this is a real
> issue or not.

I just tested on my quad powermac that also runs a stock Debian/unstable
and changing that option makes all the difference. Nevermind that it
defaults to yes and one needs to turn it off explicitly...

johannes

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