From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161087AbVLWWoq (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:44:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161088AbVLWWop (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:44:45 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:4046 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161087AbVLWWop (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:44:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:44:03 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Blaisorblade Cc: LKML Subject: Re: 2.6.14.3 - sysfs duplicated dentry bug Message-ID: <20051223224403.GA18793@kroah.com> References: <200512091848.42297.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20051209175555.GA9761@kroah.com> <200512232325.12849.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512232325.12849.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:25:11PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2005 18:55, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:48:41PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > Q: Since when is a directory entry allowed to be duplicate? > > > A: Since Linux 2.6.14! > > > > > > $ uname -r > > > 2.6.14.3-bs2-mroute > > > > > > The only sysfs-related change is the use of a custom DSDT, which is new > > > to this kernel. > > > Known bug, fixed in the 2.6.15-rc kernel tree. It was a timer > > registering with the same name in two places :( > > Sorry for answering so late (my latency in checking "spam" false positives is > big) but shouldn't this have been backported to -stable? It should, if someone sends the patch to do so to the stable@ email address :) > Also is this known to cause hangs at unmount time (I experience them > at times and they're not network FSs-related) ? Not that I have heard about, but you never know... thanks, greg k-h