linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:39:10 -0800
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:09:16 -0800,
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>
>>>That's because /sys/class/net/<interface> is now a symlink instead of a
>>>directory (and that hasn't anything to do with acpi, but rather with
>>>the conversions in the driver tree). Seems the directory -> symlink
>>>change shouldn't be done since it's impacting user space...
>>
>>You know which individual patch in -mm broke that? Can't see it easily.
>>Then we can just test across all the machines with just that one backed
>>out.
> 
> 
> I'd try reverting gregkh-driver-network-device.patch for the network
> device stuff.

Reverting that patch does indeed appear to fix it.

Thanks,

M.
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