On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:07:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >I have a patch here that converts the network device structure to use > >the struct device instead of struct class_device structure. It's a bit > >too big to post here, so it's at: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/network-class_device-to-device.patch > > So.... this is a userspace ABI change, then?
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. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
