Re: kernel oops with extended serial stuff turned on...

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:16:54PM -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote:
> Hi Greg C,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg.Chandler@wellsfargo.com 
> > [mailto:Greg.Chandler@wellsfargo.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:07 PM
> > To: Kilau, Scott
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: RE: kernel oops with extended serial stuff turned on...
> > 
> > 
> > Should that be made a permanent patch then? 
> 
> In my out-of-tree drivers, yes, it was the correct way to fix
> the problem.
> 
> I am probably not the best one to ask about the
> other serial drivers however...
> 
> The "DEVFS" stuff was removed by Greg KH, I believe, so
> he  probably is the best to decide upon the correct way of
> "fixing" it.
> 
> Ie, I am not sure whether his intentions were to slide in a
> new patch on it later on to fix the problem with trying to
> register with sysfs/udev twice...

I don't understand, what problem is occuring here?  Who is trying to
register with sysfs twice?

thanks,

greg k-h