Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Working on it, but got distracted by a /proc/net bug.

Ok, that's just something odd.

> sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net/dev
> ls: /proc/net/dev: Permission denied
> 
> sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc/net
> ls: /proc/net: Permission denied
> 
> sony:/home/akpm> ls -ld /proc/net
> ls: /proc/net: Permission denied
> 
> sony:/home/akpm> ls -l /proc | grep net
> ?---------  ? ?         ?                 ?            ? /proc/net
> 
> This is a pull of your tree from yesterday, ending at commit 
> fbb16e243887332dd5754e48ffe5b963378f3cd2

There's been various suggested patches by Al/Eric (added to cc) for 
/proc/net handling, but none of them have actually even been merged yet. 
So I don't think this code has changed in a while. 

Al, Eric, ideas?

> config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
> dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-without.txt

That whole thing should just be a simple symlink:

	fs/proc/proc_net.c:     proc_symlink("net", NULL, "self/net");

are you sure it's a plain tree of mine, without any of the patches 
floating around between Eric/Al?

			Linus