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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: artisdom@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipip, sit: copy parms.name after register_netdevice
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:12:28 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111210.131228.456749220758392202.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111210142920.GA3988@gmail.com>

From: Ted Feng <artisdom@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:24 +0800

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:46:21PM +0800, Ted Feng wrote:
>> From: Ted Feng <artisdom@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Same fix as 731abb9cb2 for ipip and sit tunnel.
>> Commit 1c5cae815d removed an explicit call to dev_alloc_name in
>> ipip_tunnel_locate and ipip6_tunnel_locate, because register_netdevice
>> will now create a valid name, however the tunnel keeps a copy of the
>> name in the private parms structure. Fix this by copying the name back
>> after register_netdevice has successfully returned.
>> 
> Just a reminder. The previous resubmited patch got no response.

So?  It's queued up in patchwork:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/

and therefore will get looked at when someone finds the time.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-10 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06  9:25 [PATCH] ipip, sit: copy parms.name after register_netdevice Ted Feng
2011-12-06 17:32 ` Greg KH
2011-12-08  3:35   ` Ted Feng
2011-12-08  4:16     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-08  4:56     ` David Miller
2011-12-08 10:46       ` Ted Feng
2011-12-10 14:29         ` Ted Feng
2011-12-10 18:12           ` David Miller [this message]
2011-12-12 23:51         ` David Miller

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