Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: use a read-write lock in bonding_show_bonds()

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 2:15 PM Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> dev_change_name（）is either used in  dev_ifsioc(case: SIOCSIFNAME) or used in do_setlink(), so
> could these net devices which need to change name be related to bond？ I am not quite sure.

You can change a netdev name with

ip link set dev OLDNAME name NEWNAME

This is generic.