Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1 -- missing network adaptors

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:52:17 -0800,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>> Merely change CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED to be set to yes, and it should
> >>> all work just fine.  Doesn't anyone read the Kconfig help entries for
> >>> new kernel options?
> >> 1. This doesn't fix it.
> > 
> > I think acpi is now being fingered here, right?
> 
> Eh? How. Backing out all your patches from -mm fixes it.
> The deprecated stuff does not fix it, it's the same as before.

That's because /sys/class/net/<interface> is now a symlink instead of a
directory (and that hasn't anything to do with acpi, but rather with
the conversions in the driver tree). Seems the directory -> symlink
change shouldn't be done since it's impacting user space...
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