From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966570AbXJPWcv (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:32:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965890AbXJPWcn (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:32:43 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54419 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965897AbXJPWcm (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:32:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20071016.153248.95506316.davem@davemloft.net> To: greg@kroah.com Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, rjw@sisk.pl, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, htejun@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.6.23-git3: Many sysfs-related warnings in dmesg From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071016213730.GB21815@kroah.com> References: <20071016204238.GA1093@kroah.com> <20071016205053.GI9942@kernel.dk> <20071016213730.GB21815@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 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 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.