On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:37:24 -0700 (PDT), David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:17:23 -0500 > > > I am getting the following error message from drivers/base/core.c: > > > > net eth1: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17) > > > > Upon investigation, the call generating the error is renaming 'eth1' to > > 'eth1'. The following patch > > suppresses the error. > > I think this check belongs in udev not in the kernel. Thankfully > this message at least tells us it is happening, please don't > remove it. Hm, device_rename() could alternatively just return success if dev->bus_id and new_name are the same. > > I'm pretty sure it's UDEV doing this, and it should not try to rename > a netdevice to what it already is named. But it shouldn't cause an error either :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
