Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: openpromfs issue | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:06:24 +0200 (MEST)
> /proc/openprom# ls -l > ... > 88 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 12 11:04 SUNW,UltraSPARC-II@1c,0 > 88 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 12 11:04 SUNW,UltraSPARC-II@1c,0 > ... > > What's wrong is obviously that there cannot be two directories with the > same name (and on top, the same inode number).
A long standing and known bug, we don't put enough addressing information into the node name so you get duplicates.
I have no plans to work on a fix, and if anything openpromfs deserves a rewrite as it's very old code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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