Re: 2.6.25-rc7: udevd compatibility issue?

[Mark Lord]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:50:06PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > Having coerced 2.6.25-rc7 onto one notebook here,
> > we're now working on the other one.
> >
> > This one is the Dell Lattitude X1 sub-notebook, with Intel everything and 
> > 2GB.
> >
> > On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" 
> > messages.
> > The messages claim "this will be ignored in a future kernel", but this is 
> > not a "future kernel".
> >
> > So, what purpose do they have in 2.6.25-rc7 ?
>
> To tell you nicely that your userspace scripts are doing stupid things
> :)
..

How about having the message *include* the offending value that was
attempted to be written?

This would make such problems much easier to track down and fix.

-ml
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