Re: [BUG] git 2.6.31-rc3'ish: "<kobject> does not have a release()function, it is broken and must be fixed."

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 18:56:24 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:12:56PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> got this when modprobing and then rmmoding my snd-azt3328 driver.
>
> Then I decided to rmmod another soundcard, snd-als4000,
> with the same result.
> Trying to exclude any ALSA issues, I then unloaded parport_pc: same
> message.
>
> The error happening _before_ module _init() and _after_ module _exit()
> clearly points to something outside of an individual driver's control,
> i.e. a module core code bug, as hinted by Greg.
>
> x86_32 UP, Debian testing, module-init-tools 3.9-2, git as of yesterday.

I can't duplicate this here at all. I wonder what the difference is.
No one has touched this code path in a while, any chance you could run
'git bisect' to track this down?

thanks,

greg k-h
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