Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1: networking breakage on HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 18:06:46 EST


From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:06:52 +0200

> I _guess_ the problem is caused by
> gregkh-driver-network-class_device-to-device.patch, but I can't verify this,
> because the kernel (obviously) doesn't compile if I revert it.

Indeed.

I thought we threw this patch out because we knew it would cause
problems for existing systems? I do remember Greg making an argument
as to why we needed the change, but that doesn't make breaking people's
systems legitimate in any way.

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