Well, this was a bug that no one caught in -mm as we all seem to be
running with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED disabled. There was a long
discussion on lkml last week, and here's the patch that should fix it
that is going to Linus in a day or so (it's in my tree, but I'm supposed
to be on vacation righ
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:00:10PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> It seems that the network device rename done by distro's
> interacts badly with the code in device_rename() in 2.6.24
> (post -rc1). Network devices create sysfs entries where the sd->s_name is
> just a pointer over to the actua
It seems that the network device rename done by distro's
interacts badly with the code in device_rename() in 2.6.24
(post -rc1). Network devices create sysfs entries where the sd->s_name is
just a pointer over to the actual buffer in the netdevice.
Prior to calling device_rename, the code in de
