From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs:  Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:55:58 -0800
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Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:40:26AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> This fixes a bug introduced with sysfs name hashes where renaming a
> network device appears to succeed but silently makes the sysfs files for
> that network device inaccessible.
> 
> In at least one configuration this bug has stopped networking from
> coming up during boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
>  fs/sysfs/dir.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Thanks for this, I'll queue it up later today.

greg k-h