linux-kernel - Re: kobject_add failed with -EEXIST

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Date:	Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:49:34 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kobject_add failed with -EEXIST

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:31:58PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:14:56PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>> DEV: Unregistering device. ID = 'cls_device'
>>>> PM: Removing info for No Bus:cls_device
>>>> device_create_release called for cls_device
>>>> device class 'cls_class': unregistering
>>>> class 'cls_class': release.
>>>> class_create_release called for cls_class
>>>> cls_exit
>>> What does sysfs look like at this point in time?  Does
>>> /sys/class/cls_class exist?
>> No, there is no such dir (it disappears).
>>
>>> Also, which kernel version are you using here?
>> 2.6.19-rc6, 2.6.19-rc5-mm2
> 
> I can't duplicate this here at all with your example code.  Check
> userspace to see if HAL or your udev scripts are doing something
> "odd"...
> 
> What distro is this, and what version of HAL and udev are you using?

I'm not sure, if you get these?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/20/168
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/20/197

I tried init=/bin/bash with no effect. 2.6.19-rc6 and 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 are on FC6,
2.6.19-rc5 is on some debian unstable (everything is mentioned in those links --
and my .config too).

$ rpm -q udev hal
udev-095-14
hal-0.5.8.1-4.fc6

regards,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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