Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:19:05 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: /sys/devices/system/timer registered twice |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:52:45 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:30:43PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Hi, > > I got this on a Centrino box with the latest bk: > > > > [kay@pim linux.kay]$ ls -l /sys/devices/system/ > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 . > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 cpu > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 i8259 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 ioapic > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 8 15:12 irqrouter > > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? timer > > > > > > It is caused by registering two devices with the name "timer" from: > > > > arch/i386/kernel/time.c > > arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_pit.c > > > > If I change one of the names, I get two correct looking sysfs entries. > > > > Greg, shouldn't the driver core prevent the corruption of the first > > device if another one tries to register with the same name? > > Hm, this looks like an issue for Dmitry, as there shouldn't be too > sysdev_class structures with the same name, right? >
I agree, but I think you got the wrong man here ;) You need to talk to Venkatesh.
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@41810e4aGZ0E5bn_hMb4JgIY5u90zA?nav=index.html|src/.|src/arch|src/arch/i386|src/arch/i386/kernel|related/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
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