On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:20 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:24:04 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:12 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > > > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:04:12 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > > > > > > > What's the value of SYSFS_DEPRECATED? Care to set it to yes, if it isn't, > > > > and try again? > > > > > > I *knew* there was a D'Oh! error in here. ;) > > > > > > Bisection is fast closing in on gregkh-driver-block-device.patch, which broke > > > my LVM almost the exact same way the *last* time it showed up in -mm ;) > > > > Oh, it must not, if SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y is set. I hope we fixed all > > issues. Please let us know if it does not work, then we will need to > > look into it. > > I changed SYSFS_DEPRECATED to y, and it was able to boot with the same old > initrd I've been using for a while. Great! > Note that I had it set to 'n' for at least the last 4-5 -mm kernels, so it > *was* working fine without it.. Yeah, but the raw block kobjects got converted to devices, which are symlinks with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n. > > > > A fix for LVM to handle symlinks instead of directories is in the LVM > > > > CVS tree, but there wasn't a release since August. > > > > > > I seem to recall it was 'nash' rather than LVM that had the indigestion the > > > last time around. > > > > I think that a recent nash should work, even with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n. > > Anyway, nothing should change when SYSFS_DEPRECATED set, nash works fine > > here, with that. > > It was working fine with =n here until -rc4-mm1 as well, that's why it's a bit > of a surprise. What got added to the 'deprecated' list in this iteration? Block devices got integrated in the driver model. > Now for the truly odd part - I just tried with a rebuilt initrd that included > the lvm.static from last night's Rawhide (lvm2-2.02.29-1.fc9). And that didn't > work any better. > > So to summarize: (old lvm == 2.02.24) > > release SYSFS_DEPRECATED lvm2 works > -rc3-mm2 N old yes > -rc4-mm1 N old no > -rc4-mm1 Y old yes > -rc4-mm1 N new no > > (I'm sure looking at that, everybody is now going 'WTF??!?' ;) > > gregkh-driver-driver-core-fix-class-glue-dir-cleanup-logic.patch and > gregkh-driver-block-device.patch are the only patches left in the (very small) > bisect window that reference SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all (according to grep) > > Anybody got any brilliant ideas? :) I guess it's nash again, which version is it? You probably need to wait for Red Hat to catch up, and don't disable SYSFS_DEPRECATED for now, they don't support that. Kay -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
