Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:39:44 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT | From | David Miller <> |
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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.
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