From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
tglx@tglx.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:00:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809241559100.3265@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809241541320.3265@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Or rather, it's a warnign about the parport /proc interface. The fact is,
> the parport code can generate multiple "instances" of things that
> time-slice on the port, but they have all ended up always just registering
> under the same name. IOW, it's a bug in the _user_ interface, not the
> kernel.
Side note: the reason nobody cares is that the files exported there are
likely never used anyway. But we don't _know_ that. Maybe somebody depends
on the totally broken things that get registered in /proc. I doubt it,
but..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-16 16:22 Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008 Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-17 0:40 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-24 22:36 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-24 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-24 22:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-24 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-09-24 23:12 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-24 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-26 10:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-27 15:21 ` Frans Pop
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