linux-kernel - Re: netdevice name corruption is still present in 2.6.18-rc6-mm1

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Message-id: <20060910020707.GA3160@nickolas.homeunix.com>
Date:	Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:07:07 -0400
From:	Nick Orlov <bugfixer@...t.ru>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: netdevice name corruption is still present in 2.6.18-rc6-mm1

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:29:39PM -0400, Nick Orlov wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> I would like to confirm that issue with netdevice name corruption
> is still present in 2.6.18-rc6-mm1 and extremely easy to reproduce
> (at least on my system) with 100% hit rate.
> 
> All I have to do is 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop'. And here we go:
> 
> Sep  8 22:50:11 nickolas kernel: [events/1:7]: Changing netdevice name from [ath0] to [\200^C^Bб\206]
> 

Confirmed: Patrick's patch fixes the issue for me.
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115777959918268&w=2)

Thank you,
	Nick Orlov.

P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list so I had to reply to my own mail in
a hope that it will make it to the right thread.

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