I believe the culprit is 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278. For some reason network devices are now showing up under the pci device tree, in directories that have something other than network devices.
# ls -l /sys/class/net/eth0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 17 23:19 /sys/class/net/eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/eth0 # ls /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:0a.0/ broken_parity_status device eth0 modalias resource subsystem uevent class driver irq msi_bus resource0 subsystem_device vendor config enable local_cpus power resource1 subsystem_vendor User space is allowed to rename network devices to anything any name not currently taken by another network device. However when I now do something like: ip link set eth0 name irq The rename half happens (because it is legal), but sysfs can't support it because of the ridiculous directory eth0 is in. After that point things go hideously wrong. The current situation is hideous namespace pollution, and breaks user space, and is only likely only a matter of time before we have a reasonable instead of an strained conflict of names. Is there any simple fix or do we need to revert the change away from class_device? Eric - 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
