Hello Lee, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:44 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> ide_core is loaded (while putting in an USB stick) as module the first >> time after reboot - all works fine. The USB stick got mounted and a ls >> is done to show the files on the root of the filesystem of the stick. >> Afterwards, the stick is securely removed from the system. >> Afterwards, ide_core is unloaded with rmmod (after usb-storage has been >> unloaded) - ok. >> >> Next step is to load ide_core again. Now, the following error can be >> found in /var/log/messages: >> >> >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver >> Revision: 7.00alpha2 >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed >> for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx >> Jan 7 11:48:18 notebook1 kernel: kobject_add failed for ide with >> -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same >> directory. > > You seem to be running a SuSE kernel - please report the issue to them.
You are right - but the same error appears with the vanilla kernel, too. That's why I reported it here. > It's probably useful to repeat your test but run "find /sys/module > > sys1" before loading ide_core the first time, then "find /sys/module > > sys2" after "rmmod ide_core", and save the output of "diff sys1 sys2". There isn't any difference. Kind regards, Andreas Hartmann - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
