Re: 2.6.13.4: 'find' complained about sysfs

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 19:30:10 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:58:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:41:45PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > When I ran 'find /sys -name modalias' I got an error
> > message on stderr saying
> >
> > find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /sys/devices: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
>
> This has been around for a while. It's very likely this..
>
> (14:56:22:davej@nwo:~)$ ll /sys/devices/system/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:09 acpi/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 cpu/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 i8237/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 i8259/
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 ioapic/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 irqrouter/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 lapic/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:09 lapic_nmi/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 machinecheck/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 node/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 timer/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 20 10:08 timer/ <---- Oops.

A fix for this is in the -mm tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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