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

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:47:24 +0530
From:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
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

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 10/26/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> 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.
> 
> Maybe:
>    find /sys/ -name audio
> shows the devpath of the already existing device?
> 
> Kay
Hi Kay,

Sorry, I can not work on that machine, till monday, and send the output
of the find by monday morning.

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