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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:29:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802121029.08007.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080212132626.GA1534@elf.ucw.cz>

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I'm getting this during bootup:
> 
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:event6
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:uinput
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:rtc0
> proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1 #125
>  ... deletia
>  =======================
> rtc_cmos 00:07: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
> rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k
> PM: Adding info for platform:coretemp.0
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:hwmon1
> 
> ... .config attached.

Which shows:

 CONFIG_GEN_RTC=y
 CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y

Disable that, then those warnings will vanish.  (I'm told that
having proc_register() return a fault code is off the table,
much like impeachment.)

How to fix ... how about:  instead of just warning folk
off such legacy RTC drivers [1] we just wrap them with
an "if RTC_LIB != n" so this mistake won't be possible.

- Dave

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120267619306747&w=2

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 13:26 WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered Pavel Machek
2008-02-12 18:29 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-02-18 10:54   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-18 11:08     ` David Brownell
2008-02-19 10:12       ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-08 22:50         ` David Brownell

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