Re: Patch to support drivers compiled into the kernel

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 19:20, Bill C Riemers <briemers redhat com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, it seems the list manager did not deliver all the replies Kay
> Sievers quoted...

> 13: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_ff_d3_da_b0_00'
>  net.interface = 'eth0'  (string)
>  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/eth0'  (string)
>  net.address = '00:ff:d3:da:b0:00'  (string)
>  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)

Seems the driver does not set its parent device properly in the
kernel. That nothing to fix in HAL or NM, it's a rather trivial kernel
driver fix. What's the driver that creates your eth0 interface? It's
usually one of that list:
  ls -l /sys/bus/pci/drivers/

Also note, no recent kernel should set CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y.
Recent udev/HAL does not supports that old sysfs format properly
anymore. You should not see any "/sys/class/..." path in HAL, they
should all start with "/sys/devices/...".

Kay