Re: kobject_register failed for intelfb (-EACCES) (Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm1)

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 11:18:10 EST


On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:58:01PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > kobject Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver:
> > > registering. parent: <NULL>, set: drivers
> > > kobject_register failed for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G
> >
> > Someone tried to put a "/" in a kobject name, which is not allowed.
> > Actually the name seems to be set to:
> > "Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver"
> > which is a bit verbous if you want to create a directory name :)

> Seems like a fix such as this will be needed:

> - .name = "Intel(R) " SUPPORTED_CHIPSETS " Framebuffer Driver",
> + .name = "intelfb",

It works.
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