From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dfeng@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
therbert@google.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
shemminger@vyatta.com, ddvlad@rosedu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: rename group sysfs entry to netdev_group
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:16:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110209.191644.193705109.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D53536B.2010505@redhat.com>
From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:54:35 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH net-next v2] net: rename group sysfs entry to netdev_group
>
> commit a512b92 adds sysfs entry for net device group, but
> before this commit, tun also uses group sysfs, so after this
> commit checkin, kernel warns like this:
> sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/net/vnet0/group'
>
> Since tun has used this for years, rename sysfs under tun might
> break existing userspace, so rename group sysfs entry for net device
> group is a better choice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 10:52 [RFC PATCH net-next] net: rename group sysfs entry to netdev_group Xiaotian feng
2011-02-09 22:03 ` David Miller
2011-02-09 22:05 ` David Miller
2011-02-10 2:54 ` Xiaotian Feng
2011-02-10 3:16 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-10 9:11 ` Vlad Dogaru
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