Hi all, Today's linux-next boot test on a Power7 blade produced this message several times: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ehea/parameters/Ã' ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:455 Modules linked in: ehea(+) NIP: c0000000001ec990 LR: c0000000001ec98c CTR: c00000000056aa40 REGS: c00000002b7ab710 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.38-rc4-autokern1) MSR: 8000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 28422484 XER: 00000005 TASK = c000000029379a20[2036] 'modprobe' THREAD: c00000002b7a8000 CPU: 13 GPR00: c0000000001ec98c c00000002b7ab990 c000000000b8a3d0 000000000000004a GPR04: 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000010000 0000000000000000 GPR08: 000000000a000000 0000000000000000 0000000000020000 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000028422482 c00000000f33d080 00000fff9765d0a0 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000010012c800f0 0000010012c817d8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000010012c813e0 0000010012c801f0 0000000000000205 0000000000002190 GPR24: fffffffffffffff4 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 c0000003fb85e000 GPR28: c00000002b7abaa0 c0000003fb760280 c000000000b0abf8 ffffffffffffffef NIP [c0000000001ec990] .sysfs_add_one+0xa8/0xe0 LR [c0000000001ec98c] .sysfs_add_one+0xa4/0xe0 Call Trace: [c00000002b7ab990] [c0000000001ec98c] .sysfs_add_one+0xa4/0xe0 (unreliable) [c00000002b7aba30] [c0000000001ebf5c] .sysfs_add_file_mode+0x68/0xd4 [c00000002b7abae0] [c0000000001ef734] .internal_create_group+0x15c/0x23c [c00000002b7abba0] [c0000000000c0528] .module_param_sysfs_setup+0x98/0xd8 [c00000002b7abc50] [c0000000000e1570] .load_module+0xa00/0x1104 [c00000002b7abd90] [c0000000000e1cd4] .SyS_init_module+0x60/0x244 [c00000002b7abe30] [c000000000008628] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 Instruction dump: 7f64db78 4bffff11 e89e8010 4be527f1 60000000 e89d0018 4be527e5 60000000 7c641b78 e87e8020 48513c8d 60000000 <0fe00000> 7f63db78 4bf8a079 60000000 ---[ end trace b4c38cc9ca87fe74 ]--- There are no changes to the ehea driver relative to Linus' tree. ehea was built as a module and it looks like this is the first module being loaded. Maybe the module parameter alignment patches? That is a very strange parameter name (it is the same in the other messages). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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