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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:59:09 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup
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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