In upgrading (clean install) from 12.1 to 12.2, I find that the upload of firmware into my pcHDTV card no longer works. The firmware files are present in /lib/firmware, just as they were under 12.1, but dmesg shows that the firmware upload is repeatedly failing. The message (and I apologize that I'm not near the machine at present) indicates something to the effect either that the file is missing or that the upload is timing out. The file is definitely not missing, so I'm guessing timeout.

The only thing I can see that I can make sense of is that, during boot, I get kernel messages showing that i2c appears to be exporting duplicate symbols.

I'm guessing (for lack of more expertise) that this is something different in the way the kernel is compiled, but I can't figure out what.

Any thoughts?

Further info... Back at the machine in question, I just loaded Slackware 13.0 on the same machine on a spare partition, and it also fails. Here is what I see in dmesg (the text below appears to repeat for each attempt at loading the firmware):

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WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:462 sysfs_add_one+0x4a/0x50()
Hardware name:
sysfs: duplicate filename 'i2c-1' can not be created
Modules linked in: nvidia(P) snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ipv6 pcmcia pcmcia_core agpgart lp fuse or51132 cx88_dvb cx88_vp3054_i2c videobuf_dvb dvb_core tuner_simple tuner_types snd_ens1371 gameport tda9887 snd_rawmidi tda8290 snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec ppdev tuner cx8800 cx8802 ac97_bus cx88xx snd_pcm ir_common v4l2_common snd_timer videodev snd v4l1_compat tveeprom i2c_i801 btcx_risc psmouse soundcore thermal intel_rng videobuf_dma_sg snd_page_alloc sg rtc_cmos processor parport_pc serio_raw tulip videobuf_core rtc_core evdev thermal_sys parport rtc_lib button hwmon [last unloaded: nvidia]
Pid: 5309, comm: kdvb-ad-0-fe-0 Tainted: P W 2.6.29.6-smp #2
Call Trace:
[<c0129c07>] warn_slowpath+0x87/0xe0
[<c03c9058>] vsnprintf+0x428/0x9e0
[<c0141551>] up+0x11/0x40
[<c012a3d9>] release_console_sem+0x189/0x1d0
[<c03c32aa>] idr_get_empty_slot+0xea/0x270
[<c03c34b0>] ida_get_new_above+0x80/0x1c0
[<c01a0aee>] find_inode+0x3e/0x70
[<c01d7890>] sysfs_ilookup_test+0x0/0x10
[<c01d7b61>] sysfs_find_dirent+0x21/0x30
[<c01d7cb4>] __sysfs_add_one+0x14/0xc0
[<c01a0f79>] ilookup5+0x39/0x50
[<c01d7daa>] sysfs_add_one+0x4a/0x50
[<c01d8328>] create_dir+0x48/0x90
[<c01d8399>] sysfs_create_dir+0x29/0x50
[<c03c404f>] kobject_get+0xf/0x20
[<c03c4189>] kobject_add_internal+0xc9/0x1c0
[<c03c430a>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3a/0x50
[<c03c43dd>] kobject_add+0x2d/0x60
[<c043e5fe>] device_add+0xae/0x520
[<c03c3e0a>] kobject_init+0x2a/0xa0
[<c04458d1>] _request_firmware+0x151/0x400
[<c0445c1f>] request_firmware+0xf/0x20
[<f97bc7ad>] or51132_set_parameters+0xfd/0x590 [or51132]
[<c0684a17>] i2c_transfer+0x67/0x90
[<f875e561>] dvb_frontend_swzigzag_autotune+0xc1/0x240 [dvb_core]
[<c0130002>] sysctl_jiffies+0x32/0xc0
[<f875eff9>] dvb_frontend_swzigzag+0x219/0x270 [dvb_core]
[<f875f7bf>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x3af/0x640 [dvb_core]
[<c013d680>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
[<f875f410>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x0/0x640 [dvb_core]
[<c013d319>] kthread+0x39/0x70
[<c013d2e0>] kthread+0x0/0x70
[<c0103b5b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
---[ end trace ccfa1b4e293f0d50 ]---
kobject_add_internal failed for i2c-1 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
Pid: 5309, comm: kdvb-ad-0-fe-0 Tainted: P W 2.6.29.6-smp #2
Call Trace:
[<c03c41ce>] kobject_add_internal+0x10e/0x1c0
[<c03c43dd>] kobject_add+0x2d/0x60
[<c043e5fe>] device_add+0xae/0x520
[<c03c3e0a>] kobject_init+0x2a/0xa0
[<c04458d1>] _request_firmware+0x151/0x400
[<c0445c1f>] request_firmware+0xf/0x20
[<f97bc7ad>] or51132_set_parameters+0xfd/0x590 [or51132]
[<c0684a17>] i2c_transfer+0x67/0x90
[<f875e561>] dvb_frontend_swzigzag_autotune+0xc1/0x240 [dvb_core]
[<c0130002>] sysctl_jiffies+0x32/0xc0
[<f875eff9>] dvb_frontend_swzigzag+0x219/0x270 [dvb_core]
[<f875f7bf>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x3af/0x640 [dvb_core]
[<c013d680>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
[<f875f410>] dvb_frontend_thread+0x0/0x640 [dvb_core]
[<c013d319>] kthread+0x39/0x70
[<c013d2e0>] kthread+0x0/0x70
[<c0103b5b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
i2c-adapter i2c-1: fw_register_device: device_register failed
or51132: No firmware uploaded(timeout or file not found?)
or51132: Waiting for firmware upload(dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw)...
i2c-adapter i2c-1: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw

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