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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ML netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network regression: cannot rename netdev twice
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:17:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F27CDBC.5020201@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP12pj6esZVmN-PYTVgJ+_MaAfmpa9hKoKKQZ+Y=Y-Kb4eA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/31/2012 12:13 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>> Does is work, if you rename the devices to something else than ethX?
>>
>> Negative:
>> # ip link set eth0 name krtek
>> # ip link set krtek name jezek
>> RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
> 
> This is a command sequence you type manually?

Yea, and it is working with 3.3.0-rc1-next-20120124_64+. Not with
3.3.0-rc1-next-20120131_64+.

> You are sure that userspace is not working in the background,
> triggered by uevents, and comes into your way here?

Note that krtek exists after the first command. But cannot be renamed
further.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz>
     [not found] ` <CAPXgP12Sr2KzGJ9RA13QBOCkctb-z3O4+1uHOjANgMDDv2pxaQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-31 10:41   ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 10:52     ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:00       ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:13         ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:17           ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2012-01-31 11:58             ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 14:18               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:40                 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:41                   ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 14:55                   ` Greg KH
2012-02-04  2:14       ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-06 20:03         ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08  2:00           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-08  3:50             ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08  6:42               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 10:57                 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 20:06                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 20:27                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08 23:48                     ` Kay Sievers

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