kobject_add failed for physmap-flash.0
NZG
ngustavson at emacinc.com
Tue Feb 13 16:17:41 EST 2007
I'm booting with JFFS2 on an ARM processor using 2.6.20-rc7.
I'm parsing the Redboot partition table to allocate the flash.
It works, but always spits out the crazy error message shown below.
I've googled around but haven't found any reference to it.
Has anyone else seen this?
Searching for RedBoot partition table in physmap-flash.0 at offset 0xfc0000
5 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device physmap-flash.0
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash.0":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "RedBoot"
0x00040000-0x00a40000 : "rootfs"
0x00a40000-0x00bc0000 : "zImage"
0x00fa0000-0x00fa1000 : "RedBoot config"
mtd: partition "RedBoot config" doesn't end on an erase block -- force
read-only
0x00fc0000-0x00fe0000 : "FIS directory"
kobject_add failed for physmap-flash.0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register
things with the same name in the.
[<c0027778>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c0140948>] (kobject_add+0x174/0x1b4)
[<c01407d4>] (kobject_add+0x0/0x1b4) from [<c015bfec>] (device_add+0x78/0x4b0)
[<c015bf74>] (device_add+0x0/0x4b0) from [<c0160314>]
(platform_device_add+0x100/0x154)
[<c0160214>] (platform_device_add+0x0/0x154) from [<c016038c>]
(platform_device_register+0x24/0x28)
r7 = 00000000 r6 = C0332000 r5 = C001EBFC r4 = C02F15D0
[<c0160368>] (platform_device_register+0x0/0x28) from [<c0019424>]
(physmap_init+0x24/0x34)
r4 = 00000000
[<c0019400>] (physmap_init+0x0/0x34) from [<c00220c0>] (init+0x94/0x270)
r4 = C001F144
[<c002202c>] (init+0x0/0x270) from [<c0040974>] (do_exit+0x0/0x7d0)
r7 = 00000000 r6 = 00000000 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
thx,
NZG
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