From: Ted Feng <artisdom@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipip, sit: copy parms.name after register_netdevice
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111210142920.GA3988@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208104619.GA20150@ted-OptiPlex-380>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-10 14:29 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 [this message]
2011-12-10 18:12 ` David Miller
2011-12-12 23:51 ` David Miller
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