From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751355AbWGLG3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751353AbWGLG3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:29:21 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:55722 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbWGLG3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:29:20 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup From: Kay Sievers To: Greg KH Cc: David Miller , akpm@osdl.org, efault@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060711225909.GK18838@kroah.com> References: <20060709021106.9310d4d1.akpm@osdl.org> <1152469329.9254.15.camel@Homer.TheSimpsons.net> <20060709135148.60561e69.akpm@osdl.org> <20060709.173212.112177014.davem@davemloft.net> <20060711225909.GK18838@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:29:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1152685764.4131.38.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton > > Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:51:48 -0700 > > > > ... > > > > As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused... > > ... > > > 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. > > > > Oh well, it means we can't apply that patch as it does break > > things. > > Ugh, that stinks. I'll work on fixing up those helper applications so > this doesn't happen, and try to get an update into the 10.1 pipeline > > So, I guess I'll just carry this forward for the next 6 months or so > till SuSE 10.0 support goes away. Looks like an old version of libsysfs (1.3) is used and causes this failure. Kay