Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759100AbXHHEhh (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:37:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752056AbXHHEh2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:37:28 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43275 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbXHHEh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:37:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070807.213724.27783161.davem@davemloft.net> To: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <46B943D3.9020207@lwfinger.net> References: <46B943D3.9020207@lwfinger.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 21 From: Larry Finger Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:17:23 -0500 > 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. I think this check belongs in udev not in the kernel. Thankfully this message at least tells us it is happening, please don't remove it. I'm pretty sure it's UDEV doing this, and it should not try to rename a netdevice to what it already is named. - 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/