Re: net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs

[David S. Miller]

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:42:56 +0100

> Recent udev versions don't longer cover bad sysfs timing with built-in
> logic. Explicit rules are required to do that. For net devices, the
> following is needed:
>   ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address"
> to handle access to net device properties from an event handler without
> races.
> 
> This patch changes the main net attributes to be created by the driver
> core, which is done _before_ the event is sent out and will not require
> the stat() loop of the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.

Kay/Greg, this looks fine, feel free to merge it in.
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