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

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Message-Id: <1162356249.6105.21.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:44:09 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	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, 2006-10-31 at 13:31 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Something is amiss, because it's still a symlink here.

With driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch reverted
so I can boot, I get the below both in my patched up 2.6.19-rc3 and
2.6.19-rc3-mm1.

strace -vf /sbin/getcfg eth0
lstat64("/sys/class/net/eth0", {st_dev=makedev(0, 0), st_ino=4480, st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=0, st_atime=2006/11/01-05:00:15, st_mtime=2006/11/01-05:59:54, st_ctime=2006/11/01-05:59:54}) = 0

file /sys/class/net/eth0
/sys/class/net/eth0: symbolic link to `../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:09.0/eth0'

grep DEPRECATED .config
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
# CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set


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