netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12743] New: Oops when renaming interfaces added to a bridge

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Message-ID: <20090221130612.GA28711@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:06:13 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	enrico.scholz@...ormatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12743] New: Oops when renaming interfaces
	added to a bridge

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> When renaming an interface which was added to a bridge, its name won't
>> be changed in the bridge setup.  Adding another interface which was
>> created later with the original name,  kernel oopses

Looks like we screwed up when designing the sysfs interface.
The port name really shouldn't show up at all as a file name.

Now we'll have to either add a nasty hack to locate all these
sysfs objects and rename them, or figure out a way to phase this
out.

I really hate sysfs!

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