From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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 12:58:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPXgP1371fgmaP3ecxsDJ2BmJrOS6kUP95G1BHe6deBPk5FVCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27CDBC.5020201@suse.cz>
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:17, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 12:13 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> 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.
Yeah, I can confirm the problem here. I works fine with earlier
kernels and fails with the latest -next:
# uname -r
3.3.0-rc1-next-20120131+
# modprobe dummy
# ip link set dummy0 name foo0
# ip link set foo0 name bar0
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[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
2012-01-31 11:58 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
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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