Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of structclass_device

[David Miller]

From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
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.
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