Nick Orlov wrote:
> 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]


Can you test this patch please?