Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932626AbXAHIWA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:22:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932631AbXAHIWA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:22:00 -0500 Received: from mx0.vr-web.de ([195.200.35.198]:47556 "EHLO mx0.vr-web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932626AbXAHIV7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 03:21:59 -0500 From: Andreas Hartmann X-Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: [2.6.18.2] ide_core bug: kobject_add failed for ide ... - with vanilla kernel Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:21:29 +0100 Organization: privat Message-ID: References: <7AKD9-50K-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <7ALze-6sT-19@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070105 SeaMonkey/1.1 In-Reply-To: <7ALze-6sT-19@gated-at.bofh.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Courier MTA Agent 1.6.2 on vrwebmail Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1671 Lines: 39 Hello Lee, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:44 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> ide_core is loaded (while putting in an USB stick) as module the first >> time after reboot - all works fine. The USB stick got mounted and a ls >> is done to show the files on the root of the filesystem of the stick. >> Afterwards, the stick is securely removed from the system. >> Afterwards, ide_core is unloaded with rmmod (after usb-storage has been >> unloaded) - ok. >> >> Next step is to load ide_core again. Now, the following error can be >> found in /var/log/messages: >> >> >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver >> Revision: 7.00alpha2 >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed >> for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: kobject_add failed for ide with >> -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same >> directory. > > You seem to be running a SuSE kernel - please report the issue to them. You are right - but the same error appears with the vanilla kernel, too. That's why I reported it here. > It's probably useful to repeat your test but run "find /sys/module > > sys1" before loading ide_core the first time, then "find /sys/module > > sys2" after "rmmod ide_core", and save the output of "diff sys1 sys2". There isn't any difference. Kind regards, Andreas Hartmann - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/