netdev - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove

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Date:	Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:30:15 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't
 remove

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Recently my tagged sysfs support revealed a flaw in the device core
> that a few rare drivers are running into such that we don't always put
> network devices in a class subdirectory named net/.

 I've been cc-ed for a reason I suppose -- any network driver I should be 
looking into?  What's the actual problem?

  Maciej
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