From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ecd@skynet.be
Subject: Re: openpromfs issue
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515.134341.68600281.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605151657510.19978@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 15:06 Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-15 20:43 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-12-31 12:56 Jan Engelhardt
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