From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:16:10 -0700
> No, not really. According to Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class all
> code that uses /sys/class/foo/ needs to be able to handle the fact that
> those entries might be symlinks and not just directories. Everything
> that I know of already works properly because the input layer has had
> symlinks in /sys/class/input for quite some time now.
>
> Do you know of any tools that use /sys/class/net/ that can not handle
> symlinks there? I've been running this on my boxes for about a week now
> with no noticeable issues. Renaming interfaces works just fine too.
I do not think this change will cause any problems.
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