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SubjectRe: STRANGE ERROR
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 16:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007 00:30:55 +0200 "Sasa Ostrouska" <casaxa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I tried today to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21.1 and i got the same
> > error during the boot time.
> > Here is the dmesg of the 2.6.20.2, can somebody tell me what this is ?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Marvell 88E1101: Registered new driver
> > Fixed PHY: Registered new driver
> > driver_bound: device fixed@100:1 already bound
>
> I don't know what caused that one.
>

this is because of issue in fixed phy driver initialisation
- have a patch but need to test it a bit more.

> > Device 'fixed@100:1' does not have a release() function, it is broken
> > and must be fixed.
> > BUG: at drivers/base/core.c:104 device_release()
> >
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff802ec380>] kobject_cleanup+0x53/0x7e
> > [<ffffffff802ec3ab>] kobject_release+0x0/0x9
> > [<ffffffff802ecf3f>] kref_put+0x74/0x81
> > [<ffffffff8035493b>] fixed_mdio_register_device+0x230/0x265
> > [<ffffffff80564d31>] fixed_init+0x1f/0x35
> > [<ffffffff802071a4>] init+0x147/0x2fb
> > [<ffffffff80223b6e>] schedule_tail+0x36/0x92
> > [<ffffffff8020a678>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
> > [<ffffffff80311714>] acpi_ds_init_one_object+0x0/0x83
> > [<ffffffff8020705d>] init+0x0/0x2fb
> > [<ffffffff8020a66e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
>
> This appears to have happened because fixed_mdio_register_device() (or
> phy_device_create) didn't suitably initialise phy_device.dev.
>
> But I don't immediately see why this doesn't affect all phy drivers.
> Presumably it's the fixed driver which is at fault. Jeff, how is this
> supposed to work?
>
the fixed phy used to have "specific" bus bound stuff
but I've reworked this point.

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