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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:52:34 -0500
From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 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.
> 

Yes, it is most likely coming from udev. Do you know who maintains udev? Google didn't give an 
answer in the first two pages.

Thanks,

Larry

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