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SubjectRe: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT
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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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