Re: 2.6.14.3 - sysfs duplicated dentry bug

[Blaisorblade]

On Friday 09 December 2005 18:55, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:48:41PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Q: Since when is a directory entry allowed to be duplicate?
> > A: Since Linux 2.6.14!
> >
> > $ uname -r
> > 2.6.14.3-bs2-mroute
> >
> > The only sysfs-related change is the use of a custom DSDT, which is new
> > to this kernel.

> Known bug, fixed in the 2.6.15-rc kernel tree.  It was a timer
> registering with the same name in two places :(

Sorry for answering so late (my latency in checking "spam" false positives is 
big) but shouldn't this have been backported to -stable? Also is this known 
to cause hangs at unmount time (I experience them at times and they're not 
network FSs-related) ?

> And yes, we should have more sysfs checks for stuff like this, any
> patches in this area would be greatly appreciated.
No idea about all kfoo stuff at the present moment^H^H^H year, sorry. Can't 
help.

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