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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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