Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:08:50 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:39:10PM -0800, Martin Bligh wrote:
> 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.

Even with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled?  For some reason I'm guessing
that you missed that suggestion a while back...

thanks,

greg k-h
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