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SubjectBroken link in /sys/class/net/ [was: [GIT] Networking]
On 10/25/2011 03:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Anyway, after that rant about really bad practices, let me say that I
>> did fix up the conflict and I think it's right. But I won't guarantee
>> it, so please check the changes to fs/sysfs/dir.c.
>
> I think it looks ok, I've booted the merge result, and am typing and
> sending this from the new kernel, and it hasn't crashed yet :)

Hi, maybe this was not caused by the merge, but the patch[1] causes this
mess in /sys/class/net/ for me:
l????????? ? ? ? ? ? eth1

This happens after one renames a net device -- the new name is eth1 here.

[1] 4f72c0cab40 (sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups)

regards,
--
js
suse labs


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