Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:44:58 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:23, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:25:21 +0200 > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > > > > > - It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely > > > > compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. > > > > I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen. > > > > > > It's not that bad, but unfortunately the networking doesn't work on my system > > > (HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 w/ updates, 64-bit). Apparently, the interfaces don't > > > get configured (both tg3 and bcm43xx are affected). > > > > Is there anything interesting in the dmesg output? > > > > Perhaps an `strace -f ifup' or whatever would tell us what's failing. > > FYI, it`s SuSE`s /sbin/getcfg binary that doesn't like the changes. It > sees /sys/class/net/eth0 as a symlink, and reels off into sys/block (?) > looking for a directory.
It's a known problem. It's actually libsysfs' fault which somehow manages to not support symlinks properly. Unfortunately getcfg made the mistake of using libsysfs instead of accessing /sys directly
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