From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: handle errors from device_rename
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:41:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482BF744.6060106@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514181543.744b8286@extreme>
Stephen Hemminger said the following on 2008-5-15 9:15:
> rollback:
> - device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
> + err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
> + if (err) {
> + memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
no need, dev->name didn't change in device_rename().
> + return err;
> + }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 0:03 [PATCH] net: Avoid problems with bonding and device rename Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-15 0:07 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20080514181257.74fbb5aa@extreme>
2008-05-15 1:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] bonding: handle case of device named bonding_master Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-15 5:35 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 1:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: remove error messages for -EEXIST case Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-15 1:26 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 3:14 ` Greg KH
2008-05-15 5:26 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 5:34 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 7:52 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-15 8:01 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 9:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-15 10:00 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 10:06 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-05-20 10:59 ` [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename() Cornelia Huck
2008-05-20 21:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-20 22:52 ` Greg KH
2008-05-20 22:52 ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 8:05 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-06-10 9:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-06-10 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-15 1:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: handle errors from device_rename Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-15 5:33 ` David Miller
2008-05-15 8:41 ` Wang Chen [this message]
2008-05-15 20:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
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