Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:03:30 +0200 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Broken link in /sys/class/net/ [was: [GIT] Networking] |
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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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