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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] dev_change_name: ignore changes to same name
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:44:45 -0700
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Prevent error/backtrace from dev_rename() when changing
name of network device to the same name. This is a common
situation with udev and other scripts that bind addr to device.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

--- a/net/core/dev.c	2007-10-24 06:01:31.000000000 -0700
+++ b/net/core/dev.c	2007-10-24 06:41:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -885,6 +885,9 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *d
 	if (!dev_valid_name(newname))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (strncmp(newname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0)
+		return 0;
+
 	memcpy(oldname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
 
 	if (strchr(newname, '%')) {