Re: 2.5.71 go boom

[Stephen Hemminger]

Perhaps the changes to network hotplug are related.  Did  you see this?
> 
> This patch causes an external script API change.
> Because network device go through the standard path, the action passed to the script
> is no longer register or unregister but is now "add" or "remove" like other devices.
> This is a good thing.  When testing (at least on RHAT) just change /etc/hotplug/net.agent
> case statement:
> 	
> case $ACTION in
> add|register)
>     # Don't do anything if the network is stopped
>     if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/network ]; then
> 	exit 0
>     fi