From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:18:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808061812.GA13867@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B94C12.2000301@lwfinger.net>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:52:34PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> >From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> >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.
> >
> >I'm pretty sure it's UDEV doing this, and it should not try to rename
> >a netdevice to what it already is named.
> >
>
> Yes, it is most likely coming from udev. Do you know who maintains udev?
> Google didn't give an answer in the first two pages.
Kay Sievers. Se contact details on his udev page here:
http://vrfy.org/log/recent-state-of-udev.html
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 4:17 Larry Finger
2007-08-08 4:37 ` David Miller
2007-08-08 4:52 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 4:55 ` David Miller
2007-08-08 5:02 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 6:18 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-08-08 9:33 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08 12:23 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 13:46 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 13:59 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 14:14 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 15:19 ` Larry Finger
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