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? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/