From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.emacinc.com ([63.245.244.68]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HH52I-00014m-RT for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:18:07 -0500 Received: from [63.245.244.67] (helo=eng011.emacinc.com) by mail.emacinc.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HH51w-0002Q9-6Y for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:17:46 -0600 From: NZG To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:17:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702131517.41184.ngustavson@emacinc.com> Subject: kobject_add failed for physmap-flash.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I'm booting with JFFS2 on an ARM processor using 2.6.20-rc7. I'm parsing the Redboot partition table to allocate the flash. It works, but always spits out the crazy error message shown below. I've googled around but haven't found any reference to it. Has anyone else seen this? Searching for RedBoot partition table in physmap-flash.0 at offset 0xfc0000 5 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device physmap-flash.0 Creating 5 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash.0": 0x00000000-0x00040000 : "RedBoot" 0x00040000-0x00a40000 : "rootfs" 0x00a40000-0x00bc0000 : "zImage" 0x00fa0000-0x00fa1000 : "RedBoot config" mtd: partition "RedBoot config" doesn't end on an erase block -- force read-only 0x00fc0000-0x00fe0000 : "FIS directory" kobject_add failed for physmap-flash.0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the. [] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [] (kobject_add+0x174/0x1b4) [] (kobject_add+0x0/0x1b4) from [] (device_add+0x78/0x4b0) [] (device_add+0x0/0x4b0) from [] (platform_device_add+0x100/0x154) [] (platform_device_add+0x0/0x154) from [] (platform_device_register+0x24/0x28) r7 = 00000000 r6 = C0332000 r5 = C001EBFC r4 = C02F15D0 [] (platform_device_register+0x0/0x28) from [] (physmap_init+0x24/0x34) r4 = 00000000 [] (physmap_init+0x0/0x34) from [] (init+0x94/0x270) r4 = C001F144 [] (init+0x0/0x270) from [] (do_exit+0x0/0x7d0) r7 = 00000000 r6 = 00000000 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000 thx, NZG