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SubjectRe: 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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