linux-kernel - Re: sysfs: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:52:02 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Amit Shah <amitshah@....net>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: sysfs: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() - with
	ALSA

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:47:22PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> I get similar warning, while loading the alsa driver

This is a different problem, not a rename issue like the network one
was.

> [  191.933548] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15
> (Tue Oct 23 06:09:18 2007 UTC).
> [  191.996323] ALSA sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c:232: can't register
> device seq
> [  192.046004] sysfs: duplicate filename 'audio' can not be created
> [  192.086048] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()

This is an error in the alsa core, perhaps the alsa developers can help
figure out why they are registering the same file twice?

thanks,

greg k-h
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