linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316

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Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:46 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc1: Badness at fs/proc/generic.c:316

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 12:51 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 at 13:24, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> Post "find /proc/device-tree" output.
> >
> > I did upload[0] a tarball of /proc/device-tree, please see below the 
> > "find" output.
> >
> > Indeed, there's a /cpus/PowerPC,G4@...2-cache and 
> > /cpus/PowerPC,G4@...2-cache#1 in the device-tree. However, from looking at 
> > the logfiles, the
> >
> >    device-tree: Duplicate name in /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0, renamed to "l2-cache#1"
> 
> That's a red herring, the real problem is this:
> 
> name 'pulses/rev'
> 
> Of course, this name cannot be found in /proc/device-tree, because it
> wasn't created.

You mean apple stuck a bloody "/" in a name property ? ARGH !

We should just add code to detect that and replace it with a "_" or
something...

Cheers,
Ben.


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