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

Nick Orlov wrote:

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:29:39PM -0400, Nick Orlov wrote:

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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)

Thanks Nick. Dave, please apply the attached patch to net-2.6.19, it
fixes the netdevice name corruption reported by multiple people.