On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:32:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:37:30 -0700
>
> > Kay, are we doing something wrong in userspace when renaming wireless
> > devices such that we can overlap names?
>
> It does it for all network devices, I see this ugly message on every
> single system I have from Fedora foo to RHEL foo to ubuntu foo to
> debian foo.
>
> udev simply applies the MAC address to device name rules blindly, it
> doesn't check if the device already has the desired name already
Ugh :(
> It's been like this forever, and since userland has been doing it for
> so long, you can't warn on this there is too much established
> practice. Expecting people to install "fixed" udev is not an
> acceptable answer, the warning is a regression and therefore you'll
> have to remove the kernel warning for this case and live with this
> issue essentially forever.
Nope, I guess we will have to take out the check (or put it under the
kobject debugging flag), unless Kay has any other ideas...
thanks,
greg k-h
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