From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:00:44 -0800
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:39:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:42:10 -0800 > > > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > > > I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute. > > > > > > I don't understand that code at all, on 2.6.24, what does reading that > > > file give you? At first glance, I don't see how that file would spit > > > out anything and not give you the same kind of oops. > > > > > > you are in a maze of kobject pointers, all alike... > > > > It's supposed to just exist, and be an empty zero length file. > > That's why it's given no ->show method pointer. > > > > It's existence just means that the partition is a "whole disk" > > partition type. > > Can you try this patch to see if it solves the oops, and that the file > is still there and works properly? It doesn't crash, but the file returns -EIO instead of zero when read. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
