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

From: Mark Huth <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:09:34 -0700

Agreed.  We had not yet found the class_device_rename.
Hopefully, this is no longer in HTML format.
By all means, help not to look like a bozo :-)  - a tall order, I realize.

Mark Huth

Dan Aloni wrote:

>(repost, now will hopefully reach the mailing list)
>
>I believe this is a better approach for fixing the sysfs renaming
>discrepancy. Later I'll also look into fixing the same issue 
>with sysctl.
>
>--- linux/net/core/dev.c	2003-08-15 12:47:50.000000000 +0300
>+++ linux/net/core/dev.c	2003-08-15 12:47:59.000000000 +0300
>@@ -2347,10 +2347,14 @@
> 				return -EEXIST;
> 			memcpy(dev->name, ifr->ifr_newname, IFNAMSIZ);
> 			dev->name[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0;
>-			strlcpy(dev->class_dev.class_id, dev->name, BUS_ID_SIZE);
>+
>+			err = class_device_rename(&dev->class_dev, dev->name);
>+			if (err) 
>+				printk(KERN_DEBUG "SIOCSIFNAME: error renaming class_device (%d)\n", err);
>+
> 			notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain,
> 					    NETDEV_CHANGENAME, dev);
>-			return 0;
>+			return err;
> 
> 		/*
> 		 *	Unknown or private ioctl
>
>
>
>  
>