From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +0100

> 
> hm, this seems to have popped up in the last few days, never had it 
> before:
> 
>   sysfs: duplicate filename 'eth0' can not be created
>   WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()

I checked in a change from Stephen Hemminger last week which
should keep this case from emitting warning messages.

commit c8d90dca3211966ba5189e0f3d4bccd558d9ae08
Author: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Fri Oct 26 03:53:42 2007 -0700

    [NET] dev_change_name: ignore changes to same name
    
    Prevent error/backtrace from dev_rename() when changing
    name of network device to the same name. This is a common
    situation with udev and other scripts that bind addr to device.
    
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f1647d7..ddfef3b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -883,6 +883,9 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname)
        if (!dev_valid_name(newname))
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       if (strncmp(newname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0)
+               return 0;
+
        memcpy(oldname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
 
        if (strchr(newname, '%')) {
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