From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751375AbWGDB5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:57:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751369AbWGDB5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:57:32 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:46796 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751358AbWGDB5b (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:57:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060703.185747.74753207.davem@davemloft.net> To: greg@kroah.com Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060703231610.GA18352@kroah.com> References: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com> <44A9A345.8040706@garzik.org> <20060703231610.GA18352@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:16:10 -0700 > No, not really. According to Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class all > code that uses /sys/class/foo/ needs to be able to handle the fact that > those entries might be symlinks and not just directories. Everything > that I know of already works properly because the input layer has had > symlinks in /sys/class/input for quite some time now. > > Do you know of any tools that use /sys/class/net/ that can not handle > symlinks there? I've been running this on my boxes for about a week now > with no noticeable issues. Renaming interfaces works just fine too. I do not think this change will cause any problems.