linux-kernel - kernel: sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice Sysctl already exists

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 11:05:15 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: kernel: sysctl table check failed:
	/dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice Sysctl already exists

Well, that's umm, special.
I wonder if powering off the printer isn't causing the sysctl to be removed,
causing the next power-on to look like a new device ?
Eric, you poked around the sysctl paths in parport last year, any ideas?

	Dave

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