From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tom Goff <thomas.goff@boeing.com>
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 14:08:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120404210821.GB1716@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120404203004.GA10737@boeing.com>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:30:04PM -0700, Tom Goff wrote:
> 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.
Good, that patch only went into 3.4-rc1 and nothing newer, I'll queue
this up for 3.4-only, thanks for letting me know.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-04 21:08 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
2012-04-04 21:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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