On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:02 +0100 Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The ancient restriction banning renaming of busy network interfaces appears > to be purposeless. Everything that depends on a network interface's name is > done under the dev_base_lock in any case. > > This makes it much easier to use things like netconsole which bring up a > network interface before userspace has started: presently these will cause > interface renamings to fail, breaking any userspace that relies on renaming > devices to avoid reliance on the potentially-unstable kernel-assigned name. > > Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/core/dev.c | 2 -- > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) This breaks quagga and other applications that track renames. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
