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Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1:  /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink
	befuddled /sbin/ifup
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:01:02 +0200
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On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 20:22 +0200, Mike Galbraith 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)

Slight correction:  it's /sbin/getcfg that did the above, resulting in
ipup failing.