On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:29 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > calling acpi_cpufreq_init+0x0/0x68() > > sysdev: class cpu: driver (ffffffff80da0110) has already been > > registered to a class, something is wrong, but will forge on! > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:183 sysdev_driver_register+0x82/0x150() > > Modules linked in: > > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted > > 2.6.26-rc1-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git-00485-g253148c-dirty #333 > > I've seen this too. The following patch seems to work for me. Venkatesh Greg, should this patch also go into 2.6.25 stable kernel? Not 100% sure, but IIRC Jiri reported the same problem on a 2.6.25 kernel. OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [PATCH] Fix bogus warning in sysdev_driver_register() if ((drv->entry.next != drv->entry.prev) || (drv->entry.next != NULL)) { warns list_empty(&drv->entry). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/sys.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/base/sys.c~fix-sys-bogus-warning drivers/base/sys.c --- linux-2.6/drivers/base/sys.c~fix-sys-bogus-warning 2008-05-06 14:30:42.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/drivers/base/sys.c 2008-05-06 14:30:45.000000000 +0900 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ int sysdev_driver_register(struct sysdev } /* Check whether this driver has already been added to a class. */ - if ((drv->entry.next != drv->entry.prev) || + if ((drv->entry.next != drv->entry.prev) && (drv->entry.next != NULL)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "sysdev: class %s: driver (%p) has already" " been registered to a class, something is wrong, but " _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html