Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762998AbXHHERi (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:17:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751733AbXHHER1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:17:27 -0400 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:60735 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbXHHER0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:17:26 -0400 Message-ID: <46B943D3.9020207@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:17:23 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 29 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. Index: wireless-dev/drivers/base/core.c =================================================================== --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/base/core.c +++ wireless-dev/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, ch sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, old_device_name); error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); - if (error) { + if (error && memcmp(dev->bus_id, new_name, sizeof(new_name))) { /* Uh... how to unravel this if restoring can fail? */ dev_err(dev, "%s: sysfs_create_symlink failed (%d)\n", __FUNCTION__, error); Larry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/