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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24.1  - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:00:49 -0800
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> wrote:

> [Try this again, except this time I'll force the attachment as inline text!]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have managed to boot 2.6.24.1 on this machine, with the NMI watchdog enabled, by using the
> "acpi=noirq" option. (There does seem to be some unhappiness with bridge symlinks in sysfs,
> though.)
> 
> ...
>
> sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created
> WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1
>  [<c0105020>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
>  [<c0105990>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
>  [<c010613d>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
>  [<c01991bf>] sysfs_add_one+0x57/0xbc
>  [<c0199e41>] sysfs_create_link+0xc2/0x10d
>  [<c01bae9a>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xbd/0x103
>  [<c034016c>] pci_legacy_init+0x56/0xe3
>  [<c03274e1>] kernel_init+0x157/0x2c3
>  [<c0104c83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================
> pci 0000:00:01.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing...
> sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created
> WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1
>  [<c0105020>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
>  [<c0105990>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
>  [<c010613d>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72
>  [<c01991bf>] sysfs_add_one+0x57/0xbc
>  [<c0199e41>] sysfs_create_link+0xc2/0x10d
>  [<c01bae9a>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xbd/0x103
>  [<c01bae82>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xa5/0x103
>  [<c034016c>] pci_legacy_init+0x56/0xe3
>  [<c03274e1>] kernel_init+0x157/0x2c3
>  [<c0104c83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================

I have a vague feeling that this was fixed, perhaps in 2.6.24.x?