Subject: Re: crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika

From: Sven Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:24:55 +0100

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:13:12AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 11:12 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:00:41AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 16:25 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > BTW, it was reported to me that the ethernet drivers don't get
> > > > autoloaded by udev. Is this a failure of udev missing the of_plateform
> > > > support, or a deficiency of the ethernet drivers ? 
> > > 
> > > As far as I know, they _are_ being loaded properly. Otherwise, the
> > > Fedora installer wouldn't work.
> > 
> > Yes, but you probably have the of_plateform udev patch, no ? 
> 
> Not any more. That was merged a while ago, wasn't it?

So, the only explanation would be if debian had a very outdated udev
which does not include this patch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther