From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: patrakov@ums.usu.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Re: Linux 2.6.16.7
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:20:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420222020.GF14441@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060418.214121.80350811.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:41:21PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:22:39 +0600
>
> > Without that patch, there is a race when registering network interfaces
> > and renaming it with udev rules, because initially the "address" in
> > sysfs doesn't contain useful data. See
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114460338900002&r=1&w=2
> >
> > Breaking the recommended way of assigning persistent network interface
> > names is, IMHO, a bug serious enough to be fixed in -stable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
>
> I've been waiting to see if there is any negative fallout
> from this change, but I guess it's OK for stable.
Thanks for the ack.
Queued to -stable, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-18 4:23 Linux 2.6.16.7 Greg KH
2006-04-18 4:23 ` Greg KH
2006-04-18 6:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-04-18 15:39 ` Greg KH
2006-04-18 18:52 ` Nick Warne
2006-04-18 19:06 ` Greg KH
2006-04-18 20:18 ` Nick Warne
2006-04-19 4:22 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-04-19 4:41 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-20 22:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-21 17:25 ` Hotplug race on name change Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-21 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-22 0:28 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-24 22:23 ` [PATCH] netdev: hotplug napi race cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 1:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-26 9:43 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-07 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-08 16:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-08 18:37 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-08 19:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
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