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Re: Bug#389250: udev: does not always rename wireless interface



reassign 389250 linux-2.6
thanks


Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 00:10 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> Kay Sievers wrote:
>>     
>>> This is just for testing, if that works, we may need to fix the
>>> kernel to create the bus-device driver link at the proper time
>>> to be catched by DRIVERS==.
>>>       
>> Just wondering whether there is anything new about this bug report.
>> Marco said it could be ipw2200 having the "race between driver setup and
>> populating the MAC address file in sysfs as some drivers do". Kay talks
>> about fixing the kernel. Should I talk to the ipw2200 maintainer? Or is
>> this a known problem that netdev people are dealing with for all drivers?
>>     
>
> It likely affects all devices, not only netdev's or certain drivers.
> This should fix it:
>   http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=driver/driver-link-sysfs-timing.patch
>   

Yes, 2.6.19-rc3 with this patch seems to work very well, thanks a lot.
Is this patch supposed to go into 2.6.19?

I am reassigning this bug to linux-2.6. I guess it could be tagged
fixed-upstream too.

Brice



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