netdev - Re: [PATCH net] mpls: handle device renames for per-device sysctls

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:48:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rshearma@...cade.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, sfeldma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mpls: handle device renames for per-device sysctls

From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:58:26 +0100

> If a device is renamed and the original name is subsequently reused
> for a new device, the following warning is generated:
 ...
> Fix this by unregistering the previous sysctl table (registered for
> the path containing the original device name) and re-registering the
> table for the path containing the new device name.
> 
> Fixes: 37bde79979c3 ("mpls: Per-device enabling of packet input")
> Reported-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>

Applied, thanks Robert.
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