| Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:51:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup |
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On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:22:09 +0200 Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> Greetings, > > As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused... > > -[pid 8191] lstat64("/sys/class/net/eth1", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > -[pid 8191] lstat64("/sys/block/eth1", 0xafec0f9c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > ...and wandered off into lala-land.
Well that's amusing. Ethernet-over-scsi?
> It used to do... > > +[pid 8905] lstat64("/sys/class/net/eth1", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > +[pid 8905] readlink("/sys/class/net/eth1/device", "../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:09.0", 255) = 53 > +[pid 8905] readlink("/sys/class/net/eth1/device", "../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:09.0", 255) = 53 > > ...and made working network interface. >
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.
If you could do a `patch -R' of that one it'd really help, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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