Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764901AbXHHN7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:59:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756011AbXHHN7g (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:59:36 -0400 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:59943 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753482AbXHHN7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:59:35 -0400 Message-ID: <46B9CC44.8000207@lwfinger.net> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:59:32 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers CC: Cornelia Huck , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c References: <46B943D3.9020207@lwfinger.net> <20070807.213724.27783161.davem@davemloft.net> <20070808113359.71e77f49@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <46B9B5C6.2070100@lwfinger.net> <3ae72650708080646k4279e48boc3a77d6454c8d72d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ae72650708080646k4279e48boc3a77d6454c8d72d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1242 Lines: 30 Kay Sievers wrote: > On 8/8/07, Larry Finger wrote: >> I agree with you, but you and David can fight it out. While finding out where to ask/complain about >> udev, I had a private communication with GregKH. He thinks that a patch to fix this has already been >> pushed through Linus. As Linville's wireless-dev tree is a little behind, I'm waiting to see if it >> gets fixed here by 2.6.23-rc3. If not, I'll talk to the udev/hotplug folks. > > Hmm, I can not immediately see how udev could request the renaming to > the same name: > > /* look if we want to change the name of the netif */ > if (strcmp(udev->name, udev->dev->kernel) != 0) { > ... > retval = rename_netif(udev); > ... > } > > What udev version is it and which distro and version? My distro is openSUSE 10.2, which is fully patched/updated. According to YaST, I'm using version 103-12 x86_64. My kernel is 2.6.23-rc2 from John Linville's git tree - I run bcm43xx-mac80211. 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/