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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:15:43 +0530
From:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Tobin Davis <tdavis@...-only.net>
CC:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Amit Shah <amitshah@....net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] sysfs: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424	sysfs_add_one()
 - with	ALSA

Tobin Davis wrote:
> First think I noticed, why are you compiling all the drivers into the
> kernel instead of as modules?  Do you need every sound device supported
> simultaneously?
> 
> Tobin
> 
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 22:45 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> > At Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:52:02 -0700,
>> > Greg KH wrote:
>> >> 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?
>> > 
>> > ALSA core shouldn't do so.  Maybe a built-in OSS driver conflict with
>> > ALSA?  We'd need to check .config, then.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Takashi
>> > -
>> Hi Takashi,
>>
>> Attaching the .config file,
>>
Hi Tobin,

I Tried compiling the kernel with allyesconfig and with mtd devices disabled.
When i tried booting into the kernel, i get this warning.

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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