Bug 5800

Summary:	/sys/class/net/<device name>/wireless directory is gone
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Ismail D (ismail)
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Jeff Garzik (jgarzik)
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	high	CC:	akpm, coderlord
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.15-rc7	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Ismail D 2005-12-30 08:39:31 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.14  
Distribution: Pardus Linux  
Problem Description:  /sys/class/net/<device name>/wireless is no longer created 
with 2.6.15-rcX kernels where as this directory contained many wireless related 
information for the device in 2.6.14 kernels. This change results in breake of many 
userspace programs & scripts. 
  
Steps to reproduce:  Install 2.6.15-rcX kernel and see /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless 
no longer exists where wlan0 is your device name.

Comment 1 Ismail D 2005-12-30 10:33:51 UTC

Change kernel version to -rc7, just tested now and the directory is gone.

Comment 2 Diego Calleja 2005-12-30 13:07:03 UTC

What wireless card are you using?

Comment 3 Ismail D 2005-12-30 13:10:05 UTC

Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG

Comment 4 Diego Calleja 2006-01-02 08:04:10 UTC

I saw you got a fix in netdev :) (please close this bug when it's merged so it
doesn't keeps open forever)

Comment 5 Ismail D 2006-01-02 08:15:31 UTC

I will as soon as its merged :)

Comment 6 Ismail D 2006-01-07 13:46:07 UTC

Andrey told me this in 2.6.15-mm2 so its up to Andrew to push this to Linus now.
CC'ing Andrew and closing this bug.

Comment 7 Andrew Morton 2006-01-07 15:20:10 UTC

Could you please test 2.6.15-mm2?  There's one report of wpa_supplicant
failing and perhaps it's due to this.

Comment 8 Ismail D 2006-01-07 15:39:05 UTC

Sure I will test & report tomorrow.

Comment 9 Ismail D 2006-01-08 17:22:50 UTC

Tried with 2.6.15-mm2 and this bug is fixed. Closing, thanks.