On 1/24/06, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:08:47AM +0200, Vasil Kolev wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a machine that's currently running 2.4.28 with the promise_old
> > driver, which runs ok. I tried upgrading it last night to 2.6.15, and
> > the following error occured, and no drives were detected/made available:
> >
> > [17179598.940000] kobject_register failed for Promise_Old_IDE (-17)
> > [17179598.940000] [dump_stack+21/23] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> > [17179598.940000] [kobject_register+52/64] kobject_register+0x34/0x40
> > [17179598.940000] [bus_add_driver+69/163] bus_add_driver+0x45/0xa3
> > [17179598.940000] [driver_register+57/60] driver_register+0x39/0x3c
> > [17179598.940000] [__pci_register_driver+125/132] __pci_register_driver+0x7d/0x84
> > [17179598.940000] [__ide_pci_register_driver+19/53] __ide_pci_register_driver+0x13/0x35
> > [17179598.940000] [pg0+945449588/1069855744] pdc202xx_ide_init+0x12/0x16 [pdc202xx_old]
> > [17179598.940000] [sys_init_module+193/430] sys_init_module+0xc1/0x1ae
> > [17179598.940000] [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>
> This means that some other driver tried to register with the same exact
> name for the same bus. As it looks like this is the ide bus, I suggest
> asking on the linux ide mailing list.
I don't see a way how this can happen. There is only one driver with
.name = "Promise_Old_IDE" and code dealing with driver registration
looks more or less sane (+ hasn't been changed recently except
.owner fixes).
Vasil, are you using vanilla 2.6.15 without any distro etc patches?
[ just to be 100% sure ]
Could you send dmesg command output?
Bartlomiej
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