Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:17:23 -0500 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c |
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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.
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/base/core.c =================================================================== --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/base/core.c +++ wireless-dev/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, ch sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, old_device_name); error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); - if (error) { + if (error && memcmp(dev->bus_id, new_name, sizeof(new_name))) { /* Uh... how to unravel this if restoring can fail? */ dev_err(dev, "%s: sysfs_create_symlink failed (%d)\n", __FUNCTION__, error);
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