Re: [PATCH] Allow renaming of network interfaces that are up.

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:02 +0100
Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ancient restriction banning renaming of busy network interfaces appears
> to be purposeless. Everything that depends on a network interface's name is
> done under the dev_base_lock in any case.
> 
> This makes it much easier to use things like netconsole which bring up a
> network interface before userspace has started: presently these will cause
> interface renamings to fail, breaking any userspace that relies on renaming
> devices to avoid reliance on the potentially-unstable kernel-assigned name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This breaks quagga and other applications that track renames.
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