netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: handle errors from device

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Message-ID: <20080515130911.6d38c09b@extreme>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 13:09:11 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	fubar@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: handle errors from device_rename

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:41:40 +0800
Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger said the following on 2008-5-15 9:15:
> >  rollback:
> > -	device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
> > +	err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
> > +	if (err) {
> > +		memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> no need, dev->name didn't change in device_rename().
>  
> > +		return err;
> > +	}
> >  

dev->name has already been changed before the call to device_rename,
so it needs to be set back read the whole code context.
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