Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:36, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:31:15 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:52, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> >> and the box still won't boot.
>> >
>> > Ick, that sucks.
>> >
>> > What kernel was FC6 based on originally?
>> >
>> > Kay, I thought that Fedora had fixed the "can't find root" issue for
>> > this type of sysfs configuation a long time ago. __Or was that something
>> > else for PPC that I am thinking of?
>>
>> It was fixed, and it's weird bug in nash.
>>
>> If Andrew is still doing the same thing as years ago, he does not
>> update the initramfs image, he boots with the old original initramfs
>> along with the new kernel. :)
>
> I run
>
> Â Â Â ÂVERS=$(make kernelrelease 2>/dev/null)
> Â Â Â Â<copy vmlinux>
> Â Â Â Â/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --install

Ah, I see.

It might be, that the fix only hit FC7, or Andrew did not install the
updates. The original mail about the nash problem is here:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/209

Kay
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