Greetings, I got this warning when booting a kernel with the attached kconfig. [ 5.073253] kobject: 'msnd-pinnacle.7' (cec33408): kobject_release, parent (null) (delayed) [ 5.074347] kobject: 'msnd-pinnacle' (cecd4980): kobject_release, parent cf3ad9b0 (delayed) [ 5.075576] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5.076200] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:486 sysfs_warn_dup+0x7d/0xa0() [ 5.077434] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/isa/drivers/msnd-pinnacle' [ 5.078422] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-wl-05537-gf1c1073 #242 [ 5.079529] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 5.080418] 00000000 00000000 cb857d74 c17a4989 cb857db4 cb857da4 c10944ba c1a23264 [ 5.081680] cb857dd0 00000001 c1a231f8 000001e6 c11c051d c11c051d c0025000 000001e6 [ 5.083104] c0025000 cb857dbc c109452e 00000009 cb857db4 c1a23264 cb857dd0 cb857de0 [ 5.084361] Call Trace: [ 5.084745] [] dump_stack+0x4b/0x98 [ 5.085463] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xa0 [ 5.086182] [] ? sysfs_warn_dup+0x7d/0xa0 [ 5.086785] [] ? sysfs_warn_dup+0x7d/0xa0 [ 5.087397] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x30 [ 5.087980] [] sysfs_warn_dup+0x7d/0xa0 [ 5.088621] [] sysfs_add_one+0x29/0x40 [ 5.089230] [] create_dir+0x58/0xa0 [ 5.089797] [] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xfd/0x120 [ 5.090709] [] kobject_add_internal+0xc2/0x240 [ 5.091505] [] ? kfree+0x7b/0x210 [ 5.092211] [] ? kobject_set_name_vargs+0x42/0x60 [ 5.092978] [] kobject_init_and_add+0x4d/0x60 [ 5.093706] [] bus_add_driver+0x7a/0x200 [ 5.094351] [] ? snd_msnd_init+0x49/0x49 [ 5.095085] [] ? isa_bus_remove+0x30/0x30 [ 5.095817] [] ? snd_msnd_init+0x49/0x49 [ 5.096521] [] driver_register+0xaf/0xf0 [ 5.097136] [] ? preempt_count_sub+0xf2/0x150 [ 5.097795] [] isa_register_driver+0x26/0x160 [ 5.098534] [] ? alsa_card_gusextreme_init+0x14/0x14 [ 5.099423] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x50/0x60 [ 5.100093] [] ? snd_msnd_init+0x49/0x49 [ 5.100715] [] snd_msnd_init+0x12/0x49 [ 5.101336] [] do_one_initcall+0x90/0x155 [ 5.102207] [] ? put_prev_task_fair+0x130/0x490 [ 5.102891] [] ? strlen+0xd/0x20 [ 5.103490] [] ? do_early_param+0x5e/0x7a [ 5.104164] [] ? parse_args+0x1ec/0x330 [ 5.104746] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x78/0x90 [ 5.105526] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x23f [ 5.106240] [] ? do_early_param+0x7a/0x7a [ 5.106961] [] kernel_init+0xb/0x150 [ 5.107566] [] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28 [ 5.108356] [] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0 [ 5.109054] ---[ end trace f2f06bffaee363dd ]--- [ 5.109705] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Thanks, Fengguang