linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]sysfs: Don't emit a warning when sysfs_rename

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Message-ID: <20080918125056.03c404e8@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:50:56 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]sysfs: Don't emit a warning when sysfs_rename_link()
 fails.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:00:31 -0700,
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> In the dev_change_name we either do dev_alloc_name
> which generates a unique device name or __dev_get_by_name
> which looks to see if we are already using that name.

Duh, I overlooked that, sorry about the noise.

(OTOH, we should get of sysfs_do_create_link() then, since it's an
unneed indirection).
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