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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:57:23 +0200
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:

> On 09.07.2006 23:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:22:09 +0200
> > Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> >>As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused...
> 
> Same here.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > If you could do a `patch -R' of that one it'd really help, thanks.
> 
> Tried that, but failed with:
> 
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> net/built-in.o: In function `dev_change_name':
> : undefined reference to `class_device_rename'
> 
> Not sure whether that's an unclean patch reversal because of conflicts
> with other patches (had a few "fuzz" and "offset" messages during the
> patch -R), will have a look tomorrow.
> 

drat, you'll also need to revert
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-class_device_rename-remove.patch