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From: Tom Goff <thomas.goff@boeing.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash for an entry after changing the namespace
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:30:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120404203004.GA10737@boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120404192236.GA30172@kroah.com>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:22:36 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:06:20PM -0700, Tom Goff wrote:
> > This is needed to allow renaming network devices that have been moved
> > to another network namespace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Goff <thomas.goff@boeing.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/sysfs/dir.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Is this a bug in 3.4-rc1 and older kernels?  If so, how old?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Yes, this is a bug in 3.4-rc1.  The patch is really a change to
d5c38b137ac8a6e3dbed13bc494d60df5b69dfc4 'sysfs: Update the name hash
when renaming sysfs entries', committed on January 31.

Thanks for looking at this.

  Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 19:06 [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash for an entry after changing the namespace Tom Goff
2012-04-04 19:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-04 20:30   ` Tom Goff [this message]
2012-04-04 21:08     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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