From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271688AbTHDOrk (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271754AbTHDOrk (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:47:40 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:64270 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271688AbTHDOrj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:47:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:47:31 +0100 From: Russell King To: Jani Monoses Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: Re: ide-cs stack_dump Message-ID: <20030804154731.C25847@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Jani Monoses , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl References: <20030804174828.08dfc5f4.jani@iv.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030804174828.08dfc5f4.jani@iv.ro>; from jani@iv.ro on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0300 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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