Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:57:47 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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.
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