Re: [PATCH]sysfs: Don't emit a warning when sysfs_rename_link() fails.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:

> Hi Greg, hi Eric,
>
> the recent sysfs tagged directory changes switched device_rename() to
> sysfs_rename_link() - which is a good thing but AFAICS re-introduces
> the scary warnings when a netdevice is renamed to something that
> already exists (which I tried to fix with
> 36ce6dad6e3cb3f050ed41e0beac0070d2062b25).

A netdevice can not be renamed to something that already exists, correctly
and still emit warnings.  Either it is a noop rename in which case
the fact that we delete the link before creating it will avoid warnings.
Or we are actually using a conflicting name.  In which case it is a
real and valid problem.  The netdev layer especially since the
networking layer already has validated that the rename is valid
before calling device_rename.

> The following patch switches sysfs_rename_link() to non-warning symlink
> creation again. It is on top of the current driver core series.

We don't need this.  Using the non-warning symlink creation is unnecessary.
Using non-warning symlink creation hides real errors.

In practice any errors that show up will be errors in sysfs, because
the network subsystem validates everything before calling us.

Eric