linux-kernel - Re: sysfs: duplicate filename '74' can not be created

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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:32:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@....de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: sysfs: duplicate filename '74' can not be created

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:03:39PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:09:40PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> [Cc'ing /sys/kernel/uids guys]
>>>
>>
>> [Also adding gregkh to the cc :)]
>>
>>>> Mar  3 13:50:01 helena kernel: sysfs: duplicate filename '74' can not be created
>>>> Mar  3 13:50:01 helena kernel: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()
>>>> Mar  3 13:50:01 helena kernel: Pid: 21911, comm: sshd Not tainted 2.6.24.3 #1
>
> What kernel version is this?  2.6.24 had lots of "issues" with the uids
> code, I'm amazed it worked at all :)
>
If that is so, would it not be better to disable this code in the stable
branch, at least don't set it as default? Or maybe mark this as experimental?

Holger

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