Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate deviceregistration

[Lee Jones]

Hi Fabio,

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We register the ab8500 as an MFD device from db8500 code during Device Tree
> > boot in order to solve some limitations of DT. However, when Device Tree is
> > not enabled, we still want to allow platform code to register the ab8500 in
> > the normal way. Here we force MFD device registration of the ab8500 only
> > when booting with Device Tree enabled.
> >
> > Solves this issue:
> > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:526 sysfs_add_one+0x88/0xb0()
> > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/ab8500-core.0'
>
> Does the following patch fix your issue?
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg182827.html

No, it's unrelated.

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