Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 09:04:56 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: kobject_register failed for intelfb (-EACCES) (Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm1) |
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:59:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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?
No, not that I know of.
> 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",
Did the SUPPORTED_CHIPSETS macro change somehow?
Anyway, the patch looks correct to me.
thanks,
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