Uttered "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>, spoke thus:
> No point. Check that file already exist and BUG() if it does.
> Unconditionally. There's no need to be nice to broken code and yes,
> any code that tries to register existing procfs entry _is_ broken.
> That was never supposed to work.
Al, please confirm that your are asking Brent to reissue this patch with just
the checking and then BUG(). The current code fails but looks to the caller as
if it worked.
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