Bootlog bug?

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 11:25 -0700, Ron Madrid wrote:
> I have a little problem with my boot messages.  I'm not sure what this
> is, but does anyone have any ideas as to what it could be or what
> further information I could give to help track this down.  As of now
> this is not manifesting itself, but I don't know what it might do.

You have ended up with a duplicate device, or duplicate device _name_,
somehow.

This is the warn:

WARN(ret == -EEXIST, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' "
                       "can not be created\n", sd->s_name);

Turning on verbose bug info would show you the name.

cheers

> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Badness at c00bdebc [verbose debug info unavailable]
> NIP: c00bdebc LR: c00bdea4 CTR: 00000000
> REGS: c7827d90 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.27)
> MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 22022042  XER: 20000000
> TASK = c7816400[1] 'swapper' THREAD: c7826000
> GPR00: c00bdea4 c7827e40 c7816400 ffffffef c7800dcc c7800afc c7811540 00000000
> GPR08: 000001e0 c03c0000 00000040 00000000 82044048 10101400 07ffb000 00000000
> GPR16: 07ff0350 07ff59b4 00000000 00000000 00000000 c03ac84c c03ac820 c7857210
> GPR24: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 c7811540 fffffffe c78b4480 c7827e58
> NIP [c00bdebc] sysfs_add_one+0x28/0x30
> LR [c00bdea4] sysfs_add_one+0x10/0x30
> Call Trace:
> [c7827e40] [c00bdea4] sysfs_add_one+0x10/0x30 (unreliable)
> [c7827e50] [c00bf12c] sysfs_do_create_link+0xac/0x15c
> [c7827e80] [c01a09b4] bus_add_device+0xf4/0x190
> [c7827ea0] [c019f1a0] device_add+0x38c/0x5c8
> [c7827ef0] [c0225db4] of_device_register+0x24/0x34
> [c7827f00] [c0009844] of_platform_device_create+0x44/0x74
> [c7827f10] [c00098ec] of_platform_bus_create+0x78/0xc8
> [c7827f30] [c0009a5c] of_platform_bus_probe+0x120/0x150
> [c7827f50] [c037a3e4] __machine_initcall_mpc831x_rdb_declare_of_platform_devices+0x4c/0x60
> [c7827f60] [c0003874] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x188
> [c7827fd0] [c036917c] kernel_init+0x88/0xf4
> [c7827ff0] [c0011b10] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60

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Michael Ellerman
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