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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:40:26AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> This fixes a bug introduced with sysfs name hashes where renaming a
> network device appears to succeed but silently makes the sysfs files for
> that network device inaccessible.
>
> In at least one configuration this bug has stopped networking from
> coming up during boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
> fs/sysfs/dir.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Thanks for this, I'll queue it up later today.

greg k-h


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