On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:14:12 +0200, Daniel Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > when using the 2.6.23-rc5-git1 kernel and trying to change a network > device name, I have the following error: > > device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17) -EEXIST, maybe a double rename? > > That comes from drivers/base/core.c : 1261 This is the link under the class directory to the renamed device. > > I know anything about sysfs, so no much help to give... :( > > I don't know if this is a bug, but my code use device_rename, check the > return value and fails. I will ignore it, but it seems not to be a > correct behavior to have such error. Why does your code need to call device_rename() itself, I'd have thought the networking code took care of it? (BTW: Which driver?) > > Easy to reproduce: > load a dummy network driver => dummy0 > change its name with : ip link set name foo0 dev dummy0 [Don't know if ip is sensitive to order, but shouldn't that be ip link set dev dummy0 name foo0 ?] You could try to switch on DEBUG_DRIVER and DEBUG_KOBJECT, this may point to where the double name pops up. - 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/
