Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 08:59:33 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: kobject_register failed for intelfb (-EACCES) (Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm1) |
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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?
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", .id_table = intelfb_pci_table, .probe = intelfb_pci_register, .remove = __devexit_p(intelfb_pci_unregister) _ - 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/
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