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

[Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> I agree with you, but you and David can fight it out. While finding out where to ask/complain about
>> udev, I had a private communication with GregKH. He thinks that a patch to fix this has already been
>> pushed through Linus. As Linville's wireless-dev tree is a little behind, I'm waiting to see if it
>> gets fixed here by 2.6.23-rc3. If not, I'll talk to the udev/hotplug folks.
> 
> Hmm, I can not immediately see how udev could request the renaming to
> the same name:
> 
>   /* look if we want to change the name of the netif */
>   if (strcmp(udev->name, udev->dev->kernel) != 0) {
>     ...
>     retval = rename_netif(udev);
>     ...
>   }
> 
> What udev version is it and which distro and version?

My distro is openSUSE 10.2, which is fully patched/updated. According to YaST, I'm using version 
103-12 x86_64. My kernel is 2.6.23-rc2 from John Linville's git tree - I run bcm43xx-mac80211.

Larry