network regression: cannot rename netdev twice

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Jiri Slaby <hidden>
Date
2012-01-31 10:41:25
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On 01/30/2012 11:52 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
2012/1/30 Jiri Slaby [off-list ref]:
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I cannot boot properly with this commit:
commit 524b6c5b39b931311dfe5a2f5abae2f5c9731676
Author: Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Dec 18 20:09:31 2011 -0800

   sysfs: Kill nlink counting.


1) network systemd rule doesn't start network
What does that mean? What's a network systemd rule?
Oh, perhaps you call it a service file, not rule file?

Anyway this is a different bug. Revert of the patch above does not help.

The bug lays in the network layer. udev is unable to perform persistent
eth naming:
# ip link set eth0 name eth1    -- this one is OK
# ip link set eth1 name eth0
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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