Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008

[Linus Torvalds]

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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