From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751449AbWGaEWe (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:22:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751462AbWGaEWe (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:22:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54672 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751449AbWGaEWd (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:22:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:22:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Greg KH Cc: ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com, laurent.riffard@free.fr, andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20060730212227.175c844c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060731033757.GA13737@kroah.com> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <44CCBBC7.3070801@free.fr> <20060731000359.GB23220@kroah.com> <200607302227.07528.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> <20060731033757.GA13737@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:37:57 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:27:06PM -0400, Andrew James Wade wrote: > > On Sunday 30 July 2006 20:03, Greg KH wrote: > > > Something's really broken with that version of udev then, because the > > > 094 version I have running here works just fine with these symlinks. > > > > Maybe, but some really odd things were happening in /sys with the > > patch. I could still follow the bogus symlinks. More than that > > > > /sys/class/mem/mem$ cd ../../class > > and > > /sys/class/mem/mem$ cd ../.. > > > > _both_ ended up with a $PWD of /sys/class. > > Ick, ok, the problem is that my "virtual device" patch isn't in my > "public" patch set that Andrew pulls from. It will fix this issue up. > I'll work on cleaning it up to be used by everyone tomorrow and move it > to the tree that Andrew pulls from. Then the next -mm release should > have this issue fixed. Mutter. This stuff breaks my FC3 test box and there is, afaict, no clear way for users to upgrade udev to unbreak it. As a developer I could of course bang on things until it works, but that's not the point. The point is that these patches break Linux on a major release from a major vendor only two years after its release. That's not a minor problem, is it?