linux-kernel - drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c: duplicate sysfs file

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Message-ID: <9629c610-26cf-d64d-8351-b90273b09676@infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:36:33 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@...gle.com>
Subject: drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c: duplicate sysfs file

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/vpd'

on the second load of this driver.  I.e.,

modprobe vpd-sysfs
rmmod vpd-sysfs
modprobe vpd-sysfs
[boom]


on 4.14-rc8

-- 
~Randy