Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master) by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 09:42:42 -0800 you wrote: > Allow a network interface to be renamed when the interface > is up. > > As described in the netconsole documentation [1], when netconsole is > used as a built-in, it will bring up the specified interface as soon as > possible. As a result, user space will not be able to rename the > interface since the kernel disallows renaming of interfaces that are > administratively up unless the 'IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK' private flag was set > by the kernel. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net-next,v3] net/core: Allow live renaming when an interface is up https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/bd039b5ea2a9 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html