Please fix bug #1852 (hald causes SYM53C8xx SCSI errors, device disconnects + GNOME hang)

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:

> We've fixed udev's libsysfs not to read _everything_ it finds, a while
> ago. udev will not cause this error. :)
> But every other user of libsysfs is expected to trigger it, cause the
> fixes are not released by now. They are only in the CVS of libsysfs.
> 
> SUSE 9.3 has 0.4.7 with the bad libsysfs an hwinfo and other tools too.
> They all need to be fixed.

SUSE fixed hwinfo in 9.2 and backported the fix to 9.1.

If however so many applications are affected, I wonder if the kernel
should really offer data beyond the configuration space in a file named
"config".

-- 
Matthias Andree
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