From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754023Ab2GEHdv (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 03:33:51 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:44110 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752853Ab2GEHdu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 03:33:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4FF5435A.1000909@linaro.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:33:46 +0100 From: Lee Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Jones CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, sameo@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate device registration References: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sam, On 03/07/12 12:59, Lee Jones wrote: > We register the ab8500 as an MFD device from db8500 code during Device Tree > boot in order to solve some limitations of DT. However, when Device Tree is > not enabled, we still want to allow platform code to register the ab8500 in > the normal way. Here we force MFD device registration of the ab8500 only > when booting with Device Tree enabled. > > Solves this issue: > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:526 sysfs_add_one+0x88/0xb0() > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/ab8500-core.0' > > Reported-by: Linus Walleij > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Are you planning on taking this in any time soon? I'd really like to fix this bug for Linus in -next. Kind regards, Lee -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead M: +44 77 88 633 515 Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog