Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: fix google/gsmi duplicateefivars_sysfs_init()

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Jan 31 2014 - 04:46:30 EST


On Tue, 28 Jan, at 05:06:21AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Starting in commit e14ab23dde12b80db4c94b684a2e485b72b16af3,
> efivars_sysfs_init() is called both by itself as an init function,
> and by drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c gsmi_init().
>
> This results in runtime warnings such as the following:
> [ 5.651330] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:530 sysfs_add_one+0xbd/0xe0()
> [ 5.657699] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/gsmi/vars'
>
> Fixing this by removing the redundant efivars_sysfs_init() call in
> gsmi_init().
>
> Tested: booted, checked that /firmware/gsmi/vars was still present and
> showed the expected contents.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c | 7 -------
> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

Oops, my bad.

(If it matters: Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>)

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