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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	"linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org" <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: multiple i2c-ocores adapters
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:51:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj01dmes.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560ED6D3.40901@freescale.com> (York Sun's message of "Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:11:15 -0700")

>>>>> "York" == York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> writes:

Hi,

>> I guess your problem is that the driver core is complaining about
 >> duplicate names for your platform devices (generated from the
 >> mfd_cell). Make sure you set the .id member to something unique.

 > What I got was

 > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/ocores-i2c'

 > I think it is caused by the i2c-ocores driver. Will dig deeper.

Like I said, this sounds like you are trying to register multiple
platform devices with the same name (ocores-i2c) and id == -1.

Please make sure you use unique ids when you have more than 1 device
instance on your system.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-02 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-02  5:47 multiple i2c-ocores adapters York Sun
2015-10-02  6:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-10-02 19:11   ` York Sun
2015-10-02 20:51     ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]

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