# Re: kobject\_register failed for intelfb (-EACCES) (Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm1)

- From: Alexey Dobriyan \<hidden\>
- Date: 2005-05-12 16:16:45 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2005/05/733725
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2005/05/733679/t.md

```text
On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg KH [ref] wrote:
> >  On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:58:01PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >  > kobject Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver:
> >  > registering. parent: <NULL>, set: drivers
> >  > kobject_register failed for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G
> > 
> >  Someone tried to put a "/" in a kobject name, which is not allowed.
> >  Actually the name seems to be set to:
> >  	"Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer Driver"
> >  which is a bit verbous if you want to create a directory name :)

> Seems like a fix such as this will be needed:

> -	.name =		"Intel(R) " SUPPORTED_CHIPSETS " Framebuffer Driver",
> +	.name =		"intelfb",

It works.
```