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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:49:06 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-git12 sysfs panic
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:36:10PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Ran into this sysfs oops while booting 2.6.25-git12.

It's not an "oops" but a WARN_ON(1);

> ipr issue ?

Stupid driver issue, yes:

> ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.4.1 (April 24, 2007)
> ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Found IOA with IRQ: 119
> ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Starting IOA initialization sequence.
> ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Adapter firmware version: 020A005E
> ipr 0000:d0:01.0: IOA initialized.
> scsi0 : IBM 570B Storage Adapter
> sysfs: duplicate filename 'state' can not be created

Looks like someone messed up, not the sysfs core's fault here :)

thanks,

greg k-h