Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:19:22 -0500 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: Error message from device_rename in drivers/base/core.c |
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Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> 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. > > Oh, that's likely a bug in the SUSE versions of the persistent net > interface rules. It is calling ifrename when it needs to swap interface > names (temp rename to free the target name), that logic which may have > that bug. > For the next SUSE release, it is replaced by the (now available) > upstream stuff from the udev tree, which most distros use now, and which > should not have that problem.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll ignore the message - it doesn't cause any problems anyway, and I'll expect it to go away when openSUSE 10.3 comes out in October. I think I'll post a bug report with SUSE just to make sure it gets fixed.
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