From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/slot'
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:10:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100414051017.GA17378@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100414013334.GA24240@canonical.com>
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:33:34PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>:
> >
> > I get one for 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0. Below I only show the
> > example for 1.0. Attached should be the full dmesg and config. Please
> > let me know about any ideas, tests, questions, or things I can do to
> > help debug the spew....
>
> These come from a patch I wrote, but unfortunately, I don't have
> the time or hardware to properly debug them. :(
It should be simple, for any dynamically allocated sysfs attribute, just
call sysfs_attribute_initialize() before registering it with the sysfs
core, and you will get rid of these messages.
If you have a pointer to your patch, I'll be glad to generate an add-on
patch to resolve this issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 19:08 WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/slot' Eric Paris
2010-04-14 1:33 ` Alex Chiang
2010-04-14 5:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-04-14 12:55 ` Alex Chiang
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