Apparently udev fails to rename the SGI O2 interface because it
doesn't have a sysfs device symlink. Does someone here know how to
fix this?
* Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-05-17 08:26]:
> [...]
> > Interfaces must have a device symlink (in /sys/class/net/$IFACE/, which
> > some broken drivers lack) and unique MAC addresses.
>
> Hi Marco,
> this "device" link is missing for this driver. So probably this is a
> kernel bug.
>
> giuseppe@sgi:~$ ls -ld /sys/class/net/*{,/device}
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth100
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-05-17 08:22 /sys/class/net/eth100/device ->
> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 23:35 /sys/class/net/lo
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 15:10 /sys/class/net/ppp0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-05-12 21:35 /sys/class/net/sit0
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
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