On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +0100
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hm, this seems to have popped up in the last few days, never had it
> before:
>
> sysfs: duplicate filename 'eth0' can not be created
> WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()
>
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff802de00a>] sysfs_add_one+0x54/0xbd
> [<ffffffff802dee61>] sysfs_create_link+0xc6/0x11d
> [<ffffffff8047c491>] device_rename+0x175/0x1d6
> [<ffffffff806180a6>] dev_change_name+0x118/0x211
> [<ffffffff8061893c>] dev_ioctl+0x4fa/0x5f8
> [<ffffffff8062eb11>] netlink_insert+0x13c/0x14b
> [<ffffffff806a877f>] do_page_fault+0x3eb/0x73f
> [<ffffffff8060b909>] sock_ioctl+0x1f2/0x200
> [<ffffffff802a5a5d>] do_ioctl+0x21/0x6b
> [<ffffffff802a5cea>] vfs_ioctl+0x243/0x25c
> [<ffffffff802a5d54>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x71
> [<ffffffff8020c02e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
>
> net eth0: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
>
> 32-bit bzImage kernel - config attached. (The 64-bit kernel even lost
> connectivity due to this and ifcfg-eth0 got renamed to ifcfg-eth0.bak by
> kudzu.)
>
> detected order of the interfaces is:
>
> forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @1
> eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc200001f2000
>
> and that's the ordering in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as well.
>
> Ingo
Already fixed post 2.6.24-rc1
commit c8d90dca3211966ba5189e0f3d4bccd558d9ae08
Author: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri Oct 26 03:53:42 2007 -0700
[NET] dev_change_name: ignore changes to same name
Prevent error/backtrace from dev_rename() when changing
name of network device to the same name. This is a common
situation with udev and other scripts that bind addr to device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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