From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename(). Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:45:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20080520144508.410ed857@extreme> References: <20080515095246.3b6a0d1d@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080515.010139.219194657.davem@davemloft.net> <20080515113131.2cea2bce@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080515.030054.247673168.davem@davemloft.net> <20080515120619.6c867bfb@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080520125913.777ed67d@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , greg@kroah.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Cornelia Huck Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:51040 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762265AbYETVpK (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:45:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080520125913.777ed67d@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:13 +0200 Cornelia Huck wrote: > OK, here is an actually-compiled patch with proper description and > s-o-b. Comments? > > ----- > > driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename(). > > Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not > something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the > callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce > sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning. > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck > This is still getting to be overkill. I prefer that the warnings always are removed.