Re: 2.6.39.2: duplicate filename '/devices/platform/GHES.9' on Asus DSBV-D

Greg KH
2011-07-08T14:37:43Z

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:24:53PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:40:03AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:02:27PM +0800, Drunkard Zhang wrote:
> > > On newly updated kernel I found this. I'm not sure it's a BIOS bug or
> > > kernel bug. More infomation attached. I can gather more infomation if
> > > you want :)
> >
> > It's an acpi issue, care to send it to that mailing list?
>
> We had this issue already: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/17/116 - I
> guess the fix wasn't complete. And yes, it is a BIOS bug but the
> kernel shouldn't OOPS just because BIOS programmers fell asleep on the
> keyboard.

It's not oopsing, sysfs is spitting out a warning and then continuing
on, after failing to create the directory.

greg k-h