2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo In Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c556752109794a5ff199b80a1673336b4df8433a dev_dbg outputs dev_name, which is released with device_unregister. This bug resulted in output like this: i2c Xy2�0: adapter [SMBus I801 adapter at 1880] unregistered The right output would be: i2c i2c-0: adapter [SMBus I801 adapter at 1880] unregistered Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c @@ -644,6 +644,9 @@ int i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter * } } + /* device name is gone after device_unregister */ + dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] unregistered\n", adap->name); + /* clean up the sysfs representation */ init_completion(&adap->dev_released); device_unregister(&adap->dev); @@ -654,8 +657,6 @@ int i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter * /* free bus id */ idr_remove(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr); - dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] unregistered\n", adap->name); - /* Clear the device structure in case this adapter is ever going to be added again */ memset(&adap->dev, 0, sizeof(adap->dev));