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

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Message-ID: <20061031213126.GA596@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:31:26 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:52:17 -0800,
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> > >>> Merely change CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED to be set to yes, and it should
> > >>> all work just fine.  Doesn't anyone read the Kconfig help entries for
> > >>> new kernel options?
> > >> 1. This doesn't fix it.
> > > 
> > > I think acpi is now being fingered here, right?
> > 
> > Eh? How. Backing out all your patches from -mm fixes it.
> > The deprecated stuff does not fix it, it's the same as before.
> 
> 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...

If you enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED, then there is no symlink and
there is no userspace change.  sysfs should look identical to before.

Or did I miss something doing this work?

thanks,

greg k-h
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