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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl
Subject: Re: ide-cs stack_dump
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:47:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030804154731.C25847@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030804174828.08dfc5f4.jani@iv.ro>; from jani@iv.ro on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0300

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hi
> as reported by someone earlier this year there's a long stack_dump
> starting from kobject_register failed with -17 (EEXISTS) when ide-cs
> detects a CF card.
> The reason is as I see it that both rescan_partitions and register_disk
> are called, both of which in turn call add_partition for all partitions
> on the CF card. add_partition calls kobject_register. Also devfs_mk_bdev
> is called twice but it only prints an error msg 'could not append...'. I
> don't know if that is how things should be called or whether kobjects
> for IDE are broken as Alan responded to that earlier post but apart from
> this initial stack_dump the card works fine (not eject of course) So is
> kobject_register to verbose or calling code should make sure it does not
> attempt to register the same object multiple times?

You can't kobject_register the same object multiple times.

What you're describing above sounds to me like an IDE problem.  It might
be worth discussing this with Bart. (cc'd)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-04 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-04 14:48 ide-cs stack_dump Jani Monoses
2003-08-04 14:47 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-08-04 23:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-05  6:44   ` Jani Monoses

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