Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:31:01 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device |
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:57:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> > 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.
Great, thanks for looking.
Do you mind if I keep this in my tree, due to the dependancies on the other driver core changes?
thanks,
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