From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:33:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate device registration In-Reply-To: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> References: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Message-ID: <4FF5435A.1000909@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Sam, On 03/07/12 12:59, Lee Jones wrote: > We register the ab8500 as an MFD device from db8500 code during Device Tree > boot in order to solve some limitations of DT. However, when Device Tree is > not enabled, we still want to allow platform code to register the ab8500 in > the normal way. Here we force MFD device registration of the ab8500 only > when booting with Device Tree enabled. > > Solves this issue: > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:526 sysfs_add_one+0x88/0xb0() > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/ab8500-core.0' > > Reported-by: Linus Walleij > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Are you planning on taking this in any time soon? I'd really like to fix this bug for Linus in -next. Kind regards, Lee -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead M: +44 77 88 633 515 Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog