Messages in this thread | | | From | Lucas De Marchi <> | Date | Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:04:43 -0300 | Subject | Re: i915: 3.1.0-rc3+: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:455 sysfs_add_one+0xb8/0xf0() |
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Hi Sergei,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 17:30, Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com> wrote: > Around -rc2+ i've noticed the following warning in dmesg [1] > >> WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:455 sysfs_add_one+0xb8/0xf0() >> sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight' > > It tries to register backlight twice, so fails miserably. > The machine is compaq-2510p with 965GM. > > Reverting commit aaa6fd2a004147bf32fce05720938236de3361d9 helps. > ("Not all systems expose a firmware or platform mechanism for changing > the backlight intensity on i915, so add native driver support.") > > Attached dmesg before reverting the patch and after. >
There's another patch that fixes this issue:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1086232/
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