On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:50:27AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:33:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:09:04 PDT, Greg KH said: > > > If CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED everything should work just fine with all old > > > initrd scripts. It's only if you enable that option (which is enabled > > > by default) that you need to ensure that your distro has the latest > > > functionality so that everything works properly. > > > > Can somebody document what an initrd has to do differently? Some of us > > run with initrd's not created by mkinitrd. > > So I'm guessing that you wrote your own initrd? > > The main issue is that /sys/block/ is now full of symlinks, not real > directories, if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not enabled. That means that > any program that was doing stat() should be doing lstat() for the block > directory to work on all instances (remember, whenever looking for a > directory or a file in sysfs, it could be either a real file/directory > or a symlink, you should not care either way.)
Oops, sorry about that, it should be the other way around, stat(), not lstat(). greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
