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

[Martin Bligh]

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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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