linux-kernel - Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809241559100.3265@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:00:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, tglx@...x.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008



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
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