Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:58:03 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT | |
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:39:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:42:10 -0800
>
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute.
> >
> > I don't understand that code at all, on 2.6.24, what does reading that
> > file give you? At first glance, I don't see how that file would spit
> > out anything and not give you the same kind of oops.
> >
> > you are in a maze of kobject pointers, all alike...
>
> It's supposed to just exist, and be an empty zero length file.
> That's why it's given no ->show method pointer.
>
> It's existence just means that the partition is a "whole disk"
> partition type.
Ah, ok, that's a bit wierd, thanks for explaining it, I'll go make it
work...
thanks,
greg k-h
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