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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:30:04 -0700
From: Tom Goff <thomas.goff@boeing.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash for an entry after changing the namespace
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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