On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 22:00 +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > * dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> [2011-07-15 13:24:39-0600]: > > > > tags 633738 + lenny > > > > > > > This is a regression as I was able to do all this with earlier kernels; definately 2.6.32-34squeeze1. > > > > > > > > hm... looks like it's from the backport of mainline commit > > > > d5aa407f59f5b83d2c50ec88f5bf56d40f1f8978. It's changing a call to > > > > register_pernet_gen_device() into a call to > > > > register_pernet_device(). > > > [...] > > > > > > Right. And it looks like this affects lenny as well (since > > > 2.6.26-26lenny3). > > > > Yep, I used basically the same backport for both updates. Apologies > > for the regression. > > > > Alexander, > > I'd appreciate it if you could test Arnaud's proposed fix in your > > configuration to help verify that no other issues remain. > > > I can test it on an orion5x (armel) platform this weekend (and amd64), > but on if you wanted it tested on a kirkwood device I cannot do that > till Tuesday at the earliest. > > Looks to me that an amd64 test would be the most straight forward to do > as it is not an ARM specific bug. Indeed not. Of course, you should verify that it does affect amd64 before testing that the fix works there. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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