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

Greg KH
2006-10-31T21:32:06Z

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:52:17 -0800,
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Merely change CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED to be set to yes, and it should
> > >>> all work just fine. Doesn't anyone read the Kconfig help entries for
> > >>> new kernel options?
> > >> 1. This doesn't fix it.
> > >
> > > I think acpi is now being fingered here, right?
> >
> > Eh? How. Backing out all your patches from -mm fixes it.
> > The deprecated stuff does not fix it, it's the same as before.
>
> 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...

If you enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED, then there is no symlink and
there is no userspace change. sysfs should look identical to before.

Or did I miss something doing this work?

thanks,

greg k-h