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

Greg KH
2006-11-01T16:43:22Z

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:11:13PM -0800, Martin Bligh wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I'm testing this now and getting some very wierd results. Will
update everyone when I figure it out (oopses in vt code...)

thanks,

greg k-h