Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262293AbVAEIBn (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:01:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262297AbVAEIBn (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:01:43 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:6629 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262293AbVAEIBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:01:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:01:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Olaf Hering Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries Message-Id: <20050105000129.63478670.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050105075357.GA12473@suse.de> References: <20050105075357.GA12473@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 15 Olaf Hering wrote: > > A few users of request_irq pass a string with '/'. > As a result, ls -l /proc/irq/*/* will fail to list these entries. hrm, interesting. So how do these entries appear in /proc? Do they actually have slashes in them? I get the feeling that something somewhere should be detecting this and should be propagating an error back. - 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/