Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:00:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008 |
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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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