netdev - Re: [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device

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Message-ID: <20080520144508.410ed857@extreme>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 14:45:08 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, greg@...ah.com,
	fubar@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for
 device_rename().

On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:13 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> wrote:

> OK, here is an actually-compiled patch with proper description and
> s-o-b. Comments?
> 
> -----
> 
> driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
> 
> Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
> something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
> callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
> sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
>

This is still getting to be overkill. I prefer that the warnings
always are removed.
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