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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:

Dave> kernel: kobject_register failed for hp100 (-17)

-17 == -EEXIST.

Looks like the driver was already loaded once, or managed to leave
some sh*t into sysfs.

Dave> Something also seems awry someplace else..

Dave> (15:54:51:root@mindphaser:linux-2.6.2)# cat /proc/modules  | grep hp100
Dave> (15:54:55:root@mindphaser:linux-2.6.2)# rmmod hp100
Dave> ERROR: Module hp100 does not exist in /proc/modules
Dave> (15:55:18:root@mindphaser:linux-2.6.2)# modprobe hp100
Dave> FATAL: Module hp100 already in kernel.
Dave> (15:55:25:root@mindphaser:linux-2.6.2)# cat /proc/modules | grep hp100
Dave> (15:55:33:root@mindphaser:linux-2.6.2)#

Dave> Odd.

I've already seen that with half-initialized modules...

	M.
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