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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: [SYSFS - 2.6.23-rc5-git1 ] device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)
Date: Friday, September 7, 2007 - 10:14 am

Hi,

when using the 2.6.23-rc5-git1 kernel and trying to change a network 
device name, I have the following error:

device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17)

That comes from drivers/base/core.c : 1261

I know anything about sysfs, so no much help to give... :(

I don't know if this is a bug, but my code use device_rename, check the 
return value and fails. I will ignore it, but it seems not to be a 
correct behavior to have such error.

Easy to reproduce:
	load a dummy network driver => dummy0
	change its name with : ip link set name foo0 dev dummy0

Thanks.
  --Daniel
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[SYSFS - 2.6.23-rc5-git1 ] device_rename: sysfs_create_symli..., Daniel Lezcano, (Fri Sep 7, 10:14 am)
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