On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:37:24 -0700 (PDT),
David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> 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.
Hm, device_rename() could alternatively just return success if
dev->bus_id and new_name are the same.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's UDEV doing this, and it should not try to rename
> a netdevice to what it already is named.
But it shouldn't cause an error either :)
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