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

Martin Bligh
2006-11-01T02:12:15Z

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:39:10PM -0800, Martin Bligh wrote:
>
>>Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:09:16 -0800,
>>>"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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...
>>>>
>>>>You know which individual patch in -mm broke that? Can't see it easily.
>>>>Then we can just test across all the machines with just that one backed
>>>>out.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'd try reverting gregkh-driver-network-device.patch for the network
>>>device stuff.
>>
>>Reverting that patch does indeed appear to fix it.
>
>
> Even with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? For some reason I'm guessing
> that you missed that suggestion a while back...

Yes - Enabling CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED didn't help.

M.