> > > Any reason why CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is set? Which user land bits > > > still need this? Is work being done to eliminate the need for this? > > > > Hopefully. It's causing oopses. We should ideally have bugs filed for > > anything in userspace which needs it. > > See the message on lkml and linux-wireless with the subject: > > Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) > > It actually has nothing to do with NetworkManager, but the problem is > that gregkh's patch broke HAL in ways that only an as-then unreleased > version of HAL could cope with (and possibly other stuff). > > Root cause was that the patch gregkh landed was faulty. See his mail > with this subject and the date of "Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:05:37 -0800 > (15:05 EST)". The patch removed the 'device' link > from /sys/class/net/XXX/ directories, which means you simply cannot > match up the class device with the hardware it actually is, which is > wrong & bad. > > Dan So this might be fixed in 2.6.21? Might be fun to unset this for one fedora kernel release to see what happens. Bill? Dave? -Louis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
