netdev - sysfs warnings, reserved names

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Message-ID: <41230e67c273dde6b60cfc7110f496e2@visp.net.lb>
Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:14:14 +0200
From:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: sysfs warnings, reserved names

Hi

Just did a test:

ip link set dev eth1 name default

And got a lot of (expected) sysfs warnings:
[1068625.677143] sysctl table check failed: 
/net/ipv4/conf/default/promote_secondaries  Sysctl already exists
[1068625.677151] Pid: 18106, comm: ip Not tainted 3.2.4-centaur #1
and etc

Kernel 3.2.4, but i guess it doesn't matter much.
Maybe such names (as all and default) should be "reserved"?
Or it is ok like that?

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