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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:52:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B94C12.2000301@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070807.213724.27783161.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 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.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's UDEV doing this, and it should not try to rename
> a netdevice to what it already is named.
> 

Yes, it is most likely coming from udev. Do you know who maintains udev? Google didn't give an 
answer in the first two pages.

Thanks,

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08  4:17 Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c Larry Finger
2007-08-08  4:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-08  4:52   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-08-08  4:55     ` David Miller
2007-08-08  5:02       ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08  6:18     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-08  9:33   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08 12:23     ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 13:46       ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 13:59         ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 14:14           ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 15:19             ` Larry Finger

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