Usually every parallel port will have a single pardev registered with it. But ppdev driver is an exception. This userspace parallel port driver allows to create multiple parrallel port devices for a single parallel port. And as a result we were having a nice warning like: "sysctl table check failed: /dev/parport/parport0/devices/ppdev0/timeslice Sysctl already exists" Use the same logic as used in parport_register_device() and register the proc files only once for each parallel port. Fixes: 6fa45a226897 ("parport: add device-model to parport subsystem") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.4+ Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414656 Bugzilla: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52322 Tested-by: James Feeney <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/parport/share.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c index bc090da..5dc53d4 100644 --- a/drivers/parport/share.c +++ b/drivers/parport/share.c @@ -939,8 +939,10 @@ parport_register_dev_model(struct parport *port, const char *name, * pardevice fields. -arca */ port->ops->init_state(par_dev, par_dev->state); - port->proc_device = par_dev; - parport_device_proc_register(par_dev); + if (!test_and_set_bit(PARPORT_DEVPROC_REGISTERED, &port->devflags)) { + port->proc_device = par_dev; + parport_device_proc_register(par_dev); + } return par_dev; -- 2.1.4