From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753838Ab2AaKlZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:41:25 -0500 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:60620 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753697Ab2AaKlX (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:41:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4F27C54F.1010107@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:41:19 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120124 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg KH , LKML , ML netdev Subject: network regression: cannot rename netdev twice References: <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/30/2012 11:52 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > 2012/1/30 Jiri Slaby : >> I cannot boot properly with this commit: >> commit 524b6c5b39b931311dfe5a2f5abae2f5c9731676 >> Author: Eric W. Biederman >> Date: Sun Dec 18 20:09:31 2011 -0800 >> >> sysfs: Kill nlink counting. >> >> >> 1) network systemd rule doesn't start network > > What does that mean? What's a network systemd rule? Oh, perhaps you call it a service file, not rule file? Anyway this is a different bug. Revert of the patch above does not help. The bug lays in the network layer. udev is unable to perform persistent eth naming: # ip link set eth0 name eth1 -- this one is OK # ip link set eth1 name eth0 RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory thanks, -- js suse labs