From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756691AbYICTCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754362AbYICTCH (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:02:07 -0400 Received: from web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.22]:28165 "HELO web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754377AbYICTCF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:02:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=5LfGCb1Xhzb0ZHwubkc+i7jeU5NVQPh+0TLFSzae927zCocrIObAUtAGn33GVKEEWT7EjDHyBc/GoHFVW5OdD9GcTfDDig7xKaPkerzwNqKkHok2pZXz9zVePaTIrGJrUHU/HOtSN3gi50LMEDxvkT7tM02rb226LAJXm7CsONI=; X-YMail-OSG: RPkVjTIVM1lNLhiDNOIb7mfjBKlF1gzwh3eVSC_X5migVJcpapXKh5oQaLBqLLP_1w-- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Rankin Reply-To: rankincj@yahoo.com Subject: Linux 2.6.26.3: parallel port trouble To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: tim@cyberelk.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-ID: <378641.67469.qm@web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Everyone, I'm seeing some strange output in the dmesg log with a 2.6.26.3 UP kernel when it prints to an old HP OfficeJet parallel port printer: ppdev0: registered pardevice sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice Sysctl already exists Pid: 3268, comm: hpijs Not tainted 2.6.26.3 #1 [] set_fail+0x30/0x39 [] sysctl_check_table+0x411/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] __register_sysctl_paths+0xa0/0x102 [] register_sysctl_paths+0x1a/0x1c [] parport_device_proc_register+0xa2/0xbc [parport] [] parport_register_device+0x1f8/0x220 [parport] [] pp_ioctl+0x11e/0x76e [ppdev] [] pp_irq+0x0/0x89 [ppdev] [] vfs_ioctl+0x49/0x5f [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x238/0x24a [] sys_ioctl+0x2c/0x43 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= ppdev0: registered pardevice ... ppdev0: unregistered pardevice ppdev0: released pardevice because user-space forgot ppdev0: unregistered pardevice ppdev0: registered pardevice sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice Sysctl already exists Pid: 6643, comm: hpijs Not tainted 2.6.26.3 #1 [] set_fail+0x30/0x39 [] sysctl_check_table+0x411/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] sysctl_check_table+0x428/0x44f [] __register_sysctl_paths+0xa0/0x102 [] register_sysctl_paths+0x1a/0x1c [] parport_device_proc_register+0xa2/0xbc [parport] [] parport_register_device+0x1f8/0x220 [parport] [] pp_ioctl+0x11e/0x76e [ppdev] [] pp_irq+0x0/0x89 [ppdev] [] vfs_ioctl+0x49/0x5f [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x238/0x24a [] sys_ioctl+0x2c/0x43 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= ppdev0: registered pardevice ppdev0: unregistered pardevice ppdev0: unregistered pardevice The printer is still printing, so I'm guessing that these warnings aren't too serious - yet. But they worry me. Cheers, Chris