Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate device registration

Lee Jones
2012-07-05T13:14:06Z

Hi Fabio,

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> 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'
>
> Does the following patch fix your issue?
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg182827.html

No, it's unrelated.

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