Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup

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On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:51:48 -0700
> > 
> >  ...
> > > > As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused...
> >  ...
> > > I'd be suspecting
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-network-class_device-to-device.patch.
> > 
> > Oh well, it means we can't apply that patch as it does break
> > things.
> 
> Ugh, that stinks.  I'll work on fixing up those helper applications so
> this doesn't happen, and try to get an update into the 10.1 pipeline
> 
> So, I guess I'll just carry this forward for the next 6 months or so
> till SuSE 10.0 support goes away.

Looks like an old version of libsysfs (1.3) is used and causes this
failure.

Kay

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