On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:32:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:37:30 -0700 > > > Kay, are we doing something wrong in userspace when renaming wireless > > devices such that we can overlap names? > > It does it for all network devices, I see this ugly message on every > single system I have from Fedora foo to RHEL foo to ubuntu foo to > debian foo. > > udev simply applies the MAC address to device name rules blindly, it > doesn't check if the device already has the desired name already
Ugh :( > It's been like this forever, and since userland has been doing it for > so long, you can't warn on this there is too much established > practice. Expecting people to install "fixed" udev is not an > acceptable answer, the warning is a regression and therefore you'll > have to remove the kernel warning for this case and live with this > issue essentially forever. Nope, I guess we will have to take out the check (or put it under the kobject debugging flag), unless Kay has any other ideas... 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/
