Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c

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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
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