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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [SYSFS - 2.6.23-rc5-git1 ] device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:14:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E15CB4.9040508@fr.ibm.com> (raw)

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)

That comes from drivers/base/core.c : 1261

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.

Easy to reproduce:
	load a dummy network driver => dummy0
	change its name with : ip link set name foo0 dev dummy0

Thanks.
  --Daniel

             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07 14:14 Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2007-09-10 11:30 ` [SYSFS - 2.6.23-rc5-git1 ] device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17) Cornelia Huck

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