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

From: Nick Orlov
Date: Sat Sep 09 2006 - 22:04:55 EST


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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