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Re: [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:01:29 -0800
References: <20050105075357.GA12473@suse.de>

Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> 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.
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