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Message-ID: <4EAC8642.3050309@suse.cz>
Date:	Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:03:30 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Broken link in /sys/class/net/ [was: [GIT] Networking]

On 10/25/2011 03:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Anyway, after that rant about really bad practices, let me say that I
>> did fix up the conflict and I think it's right. But I won't guarantee
>> it, so please check the changes to fs/sysfs/dir.c.
> 
> I think it looks ok, I've booted the merge result, and am typing and
> sending this from the new kernel, and it hasn't crashed yet :)

Hi, maybe this was not caused by the merge, but the patch[1] causes this
mess in /sys/class/net/ for me:
l????????? ? ?    ?    ?             ? eth1

This happens after one renames a net device -- the new name is eth1 here.

[1] 4f72c0cab40 (sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups)

regards,
-- 
js
suse labs
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