Re: [TRIVIAL] avoid Oops in net/core/dev.c

[Dan Aloni]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:41:02PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:38:10AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > 
> > BTW2, the attempt to rename the device here doesn't affect
> > sysfs. Patrick, we need a class_device_* interface that does 
> > this.
> 
> That's a good idea (I'm the person to blame for the class_device code,
> not Pat.)  Care to send a patch?

I have no patch, but I thought of either using lookup_one_len() 
and then d_move() to create a new dentry or to rip out some 
code out of vfs_rename_dir(). Anyway, I'm no VFS expert, so 
no patch any time soon.

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