On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:03:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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. Works: 6857 open("/sys/class/net", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 13 6857 fstat64(13, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 6857 fcntl64(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 6857 getdents64(13, /* 5 entries */, 4096) = 120 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth1", 0x80a2450, 256) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth1/device", "../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0", 256) = 53 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/lo", 0x80a2450, 256) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/lo/device", 0x80a2450, 256) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth0", 0x80a2450, 256) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 6857 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth0/device", "../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0", 256) = 53 6857 getdents64(13, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 6857 close(13) = 0 Breaks: 3620 open("/sys/class/net", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 13 3620 fstat64(13, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 3620 fcntl64(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 3620 getdents64(13, /* 5 entries */, 4096) = 120 3620 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth1", "../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/00\00:02:02.0/eth1", 256) = 55 3620 readlink("/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0/eth1/device", 0x809e910, 256) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 3620 readlink("/sys/class/net/lo", "../../devices/virtual/net/lo", 256) = 28 3620 readlink("/sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/device", 0x809e960, 256) = -1 ENOEN\T (No such file or directory) 3620 readlink("/sys/class/net/eth0", "../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/00\00:02:01.0/eth0", 256) = 55 3620 readlink("/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0/eth0/device", 0x809e960, 256) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 3620 getdents64(13, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 3620 close(13) = 0 -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html