Subject: Re: [PATCH] network device renaming sysfs fix

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:40:14 -0700

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:37:24 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The class_dev kobject name is 20 chars and IFNAMSIZ is 16, so the solution
> needs to truncate if new_name is not null terminated (all 16 chars long).
> 
> This seems like the best approach:

Patch applied, thanks everyone.

Can't the device name also change via netlink messages?
If so, do we handle that case properly?