On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:30:49PM -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
> Hey Group;
> 
> I am running SuSE 10.3 alpha - which runs very nice.  I do have a 
> question.  Permissions are rather easy to figure out but what is NEW 
> that causes root to not be able to "mkdir" in several places as in /sys.

No one should ever be calling 'mkdir' in /sys.

> At boot time I get a error message that states my modem 
> /sys/class/net/modem0/file is missing.  As a test I was going to mkdir 
> /sys/net/modem0 and see if that would solve the boot error message.
> so, mkdir /sys/class/net/modem0 give permission denied error yet 
> root:root and drwxr-xr-x are valid.  This appears to be a udev issue.

No, /sys is "special".  It's a kernel virtual filesystem and userspace
can not create files in it.

So please file a bug about some script looking for a file that isn't
present in sysfs.

thanks,

greg k-h
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