Distribution: vanilla 2.6.12 and suse 2.6.11 (currensuse SUSE9.3) Hardware Environment: optiplex gx1 with cs432x sound chip Software Environment: Problem Description: unload causes: Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: Device 'snd_generic_pm.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:85 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c01d07f9>] kobject_cleanup+0x69/0x70 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c01d0800>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c01d1084>] kref_put+0x24/0x70 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c9a4a8>] snd_generic_device_unregister+0x8/0x20 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c99bcc>] snd_card_free+0x16c/0x260 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c9e5c8>] snd_device_disconnect+0x78/0xd0 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c9e79a>] snd_device_disconnect_all+0x3a/0x80 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c99a08>] snd_card_disconnect+0xd8/0x130 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0c99d32>] snd_card_free_in_thread+0x12/0x60 [snd] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c02106fb>] card_remove_first+0x4b/0x50 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c0210fa4>] pnp_device_remove+0x34/0x40 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c02352a7>] device_release_driver+0x57/0x60 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c02352c8>] driver_detach+0x18/0x30 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c02356a4>] bus_remove_driver+0x34/0x70 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c0235b48>] driver_unregister+0x8/0x20 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<d0ce480b>] alsa_card_cs423x_exit+0xb/0x24 [snd_cs4236] Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c012ccf4>] sys_delete_module+0x154/0x170 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c0145f5e>] unmap_vma_list+0xe/0x20 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c014625d>] do_munmap+0xcd/0x100 Aug 6 13:31:38 corleone kernel: [<c0102c49>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79 Steps to reproduce: rmmod snd-cs4236 hint: there are 2 more entries with earliers kernel related to cs432x problems
This should have been fixed in the recent version.
Please reopen this bug if it's still present in recent 2.6 kernels.