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

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Message-ID: <45480241.2090803@google.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:11:13 -0800
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.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

Greg KH wrote:
> 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...

Yes - Enabling CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED didn't help.

M.
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