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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:58:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207065803.GA23317@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080206.223944.200455039.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:39:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:42:10 -0800
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute.
> > 
> > I don't understand that code at all, on 2.6.24, what does reading that
> > file give you?  At first glance, I don't see how that file would spit
> > out anything and not give you the same kind of oops.
> > 
> > you are in a maze of kobject pointers, all alike...
> 
> It's supposed to just exist, and be an empty zero length file.
> That's why it's given no ->show method pointer.
> 
> It's existence just means that the partition is a "whole disk"
> partition type.

Ah, ok, that's a bit wierd, thanks for explaining it, I'll go make it
work...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 23:26 partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT David Miller
2008-02-06 23:31 ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 23:37   ` David Miller
2008-02-06 23:48     ` David Miller
2008-02-06 23:59     ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  0:02       ` David Miller
2008-02-07  0:09         ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  0:29           ` David Miller
2008-02-07  4:06           ` David Miller
2008-02-07  5:47             ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  6:05               ` David Miller
2008-02-07  6:38                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  6:38                   ` David Miller
2008-02-07  6:42                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  6:39                   ` David Miller
2008-02-07  6:58                     ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-07  7:00                     ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  7:11                       ` David Miller
2008-02-07  7:18                         ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  7:33                           ` David Miller
2008-02-07  7:43                             ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  7:20                         ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  7:24                           ` David Miller
2008-02-07  7:42                             ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  6:44                 ` Greg KH
2008-02-07  6:42                   ` David Miller
2008-02-06 23:57   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-07  0:07     ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 23:42 ` Oops figures Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-06 23:42   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-06 23:47   ` David Miller
2008-02-06 23:47     ` David Miller

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