From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Subject: Re: pktcdvd -> sysfs warning with 2.6.27
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:18:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081012221851.GB22940@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqrxo924.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:25:07PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2008, Greg KH stated:
> > Perhaps some other kernel code is registering with that same major/minor
> > number, making it already present in sysfs. Where does that sysfs file
> > link to before you load your driver?
>
> It's not modular right now so it's sort of hard to tell. I'll rebuild it
> as a module and have a look (be a while before I can reboot though,
> other people are using this machine right now).
How about before you run that command on the machine?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-12 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 12:26 pktcdvd -> sysfs warning with 2.6.27 Nix
2008-10-12 18:17 ` Greg KH
2008-10-12 20:25 ` Nix
2008-10-12 22:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-10-12 22:36 ` Nix
2008-10-13 10:27 ` Philip Martin
2008-10-13 21:28 ` Nix
2008-10-13 21:47 ` Greg KH
2008-10-13 22:01 ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-10-13 22:03 ` Nix
2008-10-14 5:27 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-10-14 8:38 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-14 9:20 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-14 19:53 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-10-14 22:32 ` Kay Sievers
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