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Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:59:33 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: kobject_register failed for intelfb (-EACCES) (Re:
 2.6.12-rc4-mm1)
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> 
>  On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:58:01PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>  > kobject Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver:
>  > registering. parent: <NULL>, set: drivers
>  > kobject_register failed for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G
> 
>  Someone tried to put a "/" in a kobject name, which is not allowed.
>  Actually the name seems to be set to:
>  	"Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver"
>  which is a bit verbous if you want to create a directory name :)

I don't think that part of the driver has changed in some time.  Is there
something new in your trees which would trigger this?

Seems like a fix such as this will be needed:

--- 25/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c~intelfbdrv-naming-fix	2005-05-12 08:54:46.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c	2005-05-12 08:55:03.000000000 -0700
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static struct fb_ops intel_fb_ops = {
 
 /* PCI driver module table */
 static struct pci_driver intelfb_driver = {
-	.name =		"Intel(R) " SUPPORTED_CHIPSETS " Framebuffer Driver",
+	.name =		"intelfb",
 	.id_table =	intelfb_pci_table,
 	.probe =	intelfb_pci_register,
 	.remove =	__devexit_p(intelfb_pci_unregister)
_

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