With generic AC97 ASoC glue driver (codec/ac97.c), we get following warning when
the device is registered (slightly stripped the backtrace):
kobject (
c5a863e8): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously
                    wrong.
[<
c00254fc>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xec)
[<
c014fad0>] (kobject_init+0x38/0x70)
[<
c0171e94>] (device_initialize+0x20/0x70)
[<
c017267c>] (device_register+0xc/0x18)
[<
bf20db70>] (snd_soc_instantiate_cards+0x924/0xacc [snd_soc_core])
[<
bf20e0d0>] (snd_soc_register_platform+0x16c/0x198 [snd_soc_core])
[<
c0175304>] (platform_drv_probe+0x18/0x1c)
[<
c0174454>] (driver_probe_device+0xb0/0x16c)
[<
c017456c>] (__driver_attach+0x5c/0x7c)
[<
c0173cec>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x48/0x78)
[<
c0173600>] (bus_add_driver+0x98/0x214)
[<
c0174834>] (driver_register+0xa4/0x130)
[<
c001f410>] (do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x1a4)
[<
c0062ddc>] (sys_init_module+0x12b0/0x1454)
This happens because the generic AC97 glue driver creates its codec->ac97 via
calling snd_ac97_mixer(). snd_ac97_mixer() provides own version of
snd_device.register which handles the device registration when
snd_card_register() is called.
To avoid registering the AC97 device twice, we add a new flag to the
snd_soc_codec: ac97_created which tells whether the AC97 device was created by
SoC subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
 
        unsigned int suspended:1; /* Codec is in suspend PM state */
        unsigned int probed:1; /* Codec has been probed */
        unsigned int ac97_registered:1; /* Codec has been AC97 registered */
+       unsigned int ac97_created:1; /* Codec has been created by SoC */
        unsigned int sysfs_registered:1; /* codec has been sysfs registered */
 
        /* codec IO */
 
         * for the generic AC97 subsystem.
         */
        if (rtd->codec_dai->driver->ac97_control && !rtd->codec->ac97_registered) {
+               /*
+                * It is possible that the AC97 device is already registered to
+                * the device subsystem. This happens when the device is created
+                * via snd_ac97_mixer(). Currently only SoC codec that does so
+                * is the generic AC97 glue but others migh emerge.
+                *
+                * In those cases we don't try to register the device again.
+                */
+               if (!rtd->codec->ac97_created)
+                       return 0;
 
                ret = soc_ac97_dev_register(rtd->codec);
                if (ret < 0) {
 
        codec->ac97->bus->ops = ops;
        codec->ac97->num = num;
+
+       /*
+        * Mark the AC97 device to be created by us. This way we ensure that the
+        * device will be registered with the device subsystem later on.
+        */
+       codec->ac97_created = 1;
+
        mutex_unlock(&codec->mutex);
        return 0;
 }
        kfree(codec->ac97->bus);
        kfree(codec->ac97);
        codec->ac97 = NULL;
+       codec->ac97_created = 0;
        mutex_unlock(&codec->mutex);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_soc_free_ac97_codec);