Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 08:18:10 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 |
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Jean Delvare wrote: > Michal Piotrowski reported: > >>> When I try to "modprobe -r i2c_i801" modprobe hangs >>> > > Quoting myself: > >> I can reproduce it, with both i2c-i801 and i2c-parport, so it's not >> related to a specific driver. I'm currently performing a bisection on >> 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 to try and isolate the culprit. It seems to point to >> gregkh-driver-*. i2c patches are innocent for sure, including Kumar's >> ones. >> > > And the winner is... > gregkh-driver-driver-core-class_device_add-needs-error-checks.patch > > Stephen, Greg? > > Look at the error return from class_device_register. I bet it was working before because the class_device_register wasn't checking something, now it is and that exposes a bug that has existed in i2c since sysfs support was added.
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