linux-kernel - Re: bug: kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:14:10 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: bug: kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:53 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> an allyesconfig bootup generates the driver core warning below, in 
> alsa_card_dummy_init().
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> ------------------>
> Calling initcall 0xc1ee1d35: alsa_card_dummy_init+0x0/0x8a()
> PM: Adding info for platform:snd_dummy.0
> kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.

This is i386 or x86_64? This one, and the others, your been sending look
like initcall ordering issues. For instance, some alsa init usually runs
after alsa_card_dummy_init() , but in your kernel alsa_card_dummy_init()
runs first. It's a problem even in the same initcall level.

Daniel

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