Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:45:08 -0700

On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:13 +0200
Cornelia Huck <[email-masked]> wrote:

> OK, here is an actually-compiled patch with proper description and
> s-o-b. Comments?
> 
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> 
> 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 <[email-masked]>
>

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