Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:42:38 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.23-git3: Many sysfs-related warnings in dmesg |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:04:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 October 2007 06:50, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:26:32PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > There are many traces like this in my dmesg from 2.6.23-git3 (they don't > > > appear for vanilla 2.6.23): > > > > > > <4>sysfs: duplicate filename 'ethxx1' can not be created > > > WARNING: at /home/rafael/src/linux-2.6/fs/sysfs/dir.c:425 sysfs_add_one() > > > > > > Call Trace: > > > [<ffffffff802d1532>] sysfs_add_one+0x5c/0xc9 > > > [<ffffffff802d2411>] sysfs_create_link+0xd1/0x12c > > > [<ffffffff803756da>] device_rename+0x17a/0x1db > > > [<ffffffff803c903d>] dev_change_name+0x114/0x20c > > > [<ffffffff803c9339>] dev_ifsioc+0x204/0x2d0 > > > [<ffffffff803c9925>] dev_ioctl+0x520/0x633 > > > [<ffffffff803bf445>] sk_alloc+0x37/0x10c > > > [<ffffffff8024b977>] up_read+0x9/0xb > > > [<ffffffff803bc65e>] sock_ioctl+0x1fe/0x20c > > > [<ffffffff8029b34a>] do_ioctl+0x2a/0x77 > > > [<ffffffff8029b5e8>] vfs_ioctl+0x251/0x26e > > > [<ffffffff8029b664>] sys_ioctl+0x5f/0x83 > > > [<ffffffff8020bd4e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 > > > > > > net ethxx1: device_rename: sysfs_create_symlink failed (-17) > > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'eth1' can not be created > > > > > > Everything seems to work, but this just looks fishy. > > > > This is a userspace program renaming your network device to a name that > > is already in use. What distro and release is this? > > openSUSE 10.2, with some updates (not the most recent, though).
Can you try 10.3? I think we fixed this issue there.
thanks,
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