Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup

Greg KH
2006-07-11T23:23:26Z

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:51:48 -0700
>
> ...
> > > As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused...
> ...
> > I'd be suspecting
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-network-class_device-to-device.patch.
>
> Oh well, it means we can't apply that patch as it does break
> things.

Ugh, that stinks. I'll work on fixing up those helper applications so
this doesn't happen, and try to get an update into the 10.1 pipeline

So, I guess I'll just carry this forward for the next 6 months or so
till SuSE 10.0 support goes away.

> Greg, do you test on SuSE installations? :-)

Heh, most of the time yes, but this stuff only on a Gentoo box for some
reason. Sorry about that.

thanks,

greg k-h