From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753926Ab2AaLRV (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:17:21 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:50772 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753167Ab2AaLRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:17:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4F27CDBC.5020201@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:17:16 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120124 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg KH , LKML , ML netdev Subject: Re: network regression: cannot rename netdev twice References: <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz> <4F27C54F.1010107@suse.cz> <4F27C9D4.3040105@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/31/2012 12:13 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> Does is work, if you rename the devices to something else than ethX? >> >> Negative: >> # ip link set eth0 name krtek >> # ip link set krtek name jezek >> RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory > > This is a command sequence you type manually? Yea, and it is working with 3.3.0-rc1-next-20120124_64+. Not with 3.3.0-rc1-next-20120131_64+. > You are sure that userspace is not working in the background, > triggered by uevents, and comes into your way here? Note that krtek exists after the first command. But cannot be renamed further. thanks, -- js suse labs