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

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com>]

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...

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.

Thanks,

M.

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