kobject_add failed for USB Device During boot up.
Issue
- During boot with kernel 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 kobject_add failed for usbdev1.2_ep81 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff801543f7>] kobject_add+0x166/0x191
[<ffffffff801ca101>] device_add+0x85/0x372
[<ffffffff801ffe3e>] usb\_create\_ep_files+0x137/0x19a
[<ffffffff801ff8da>] usb\_create\_sysfs\_intf\_files+0x80/0x93
[<ffffffff801fd1ac>] usb\_set\_configuration+0x3aa/0x3d9
[<ffffffff801f8ec4>] usb\_new\_device+0x253/0x2c4
[<ffffffff801f9ffc>] hub_thread+0x742/0xb01
[<ffffffff800a28ec>] autoremove\_wake\_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff801f98ba>] hub_thread+0x0/0xb01
[<ffffffff800a26d4>] keventd\_create\_kthread+0x0/0xc4
[<ffffffff80032b26>] kthread+0xfe/0x132
[<ffffffff8009f2bb>] request_module+0x0/0x14d
[<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[<ffffffff800a26d4>] keventd\_create\_kthread+0x0/0xc4
[<ffffffff80032a28>] kthread+0x0/0x132
[<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11
- This started to occur after updating the kernel to 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 5.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 5.8
- kernel 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
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