Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756242AbYFJPaa (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753255AbYFJPaT (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:19 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:54451 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753098AbYFJPaR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:17 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.568 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:30:14 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Cornelia Huck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , David Miller , fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename(). Message-ID: <20080610083014.66052504@extreme> In-Reply-To: <20080610110908.46b2ade4@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <20080515095246.3b6a0d1d@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080515.010139.219194657.davem@davemloft.net> <20080515113131.2cea2bce@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080515.030054.247673168.davem@davemloft.net> <20080515120619.6c867bfb@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080520125913.777ed67d@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080520225244.GG15912@kroah.com> <20080521100556.3352c5b7@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080610110908.46b2ade4@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1523 Lines: 43 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:09:08 +0200 Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:05:56 +0200, > Cornelia Huck wrote: > > Just digging through my backlog: Is there any further interest in this > patch? > > > On Tue, 20 May 2008 15:52:44 -0700, > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:59:13PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > > OK, here is an actually-compiled patch with proper description and > > > > s-o-b. Comments? > > > > > > Looks good to me, feel free to add an: > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > > > to it. > > > > > > David, are you going to take this through your tree? > > > > Here it is again, respun against today's git: > > > > > > driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename(). > > > > Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not > > something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the > > callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce > > sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning. > > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck > > I you want to put the warnings back this is a reasonable way. -- 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/