From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754239AbWLRQe4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:34:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754240AbWLRQe4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:34:56 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:21482 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754238AbWLRQez (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:34:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1216 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:34:55 EST Subject: Re: bug: kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST From: Daniel Walker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <20061218155349.GA21282@elte.hu> References: <20061218155349.GA21282@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:14:10 -0800 Message-Id: <1166458451.11560.5.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:53 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > an allyesconfig bootup generates the driver core warning below, in > alsa_card_dummy_init(). > > Ingo > > ------------------> > Calling initcall 0xc1ee1d35: alsa_card_dummy_init+0x0/0x8a() > PM: Adding info for platform:snd_dummy.0 > kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. This is i386 or x86_64? This one, and the others, your been sending look like initcall ordering issues. For instance, some alsa init usually runs after alsa_card_dummy_init() , but in your kernel alsa_card_dummy_init() runs first. It's a problem even in the same initcall level. Daniel