Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:52:34 -0500 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c |
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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.
Thanks,
Larry
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