sftp error: Couldn't canonicalize

sftp> put -r nvidia/
Uploading nvidia/ to /data2/zjm/libs/nvidia
Couldn’t canonicalize: No such file or directory
Unable to canonicalize path “/data2/zjm/libs/nvidia”

决解办法是：
sftp> mkdir nvidia ＃现在远程端建立一个目录
sftp> put -r nvidia/

refer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7004/uploading-directories-with-sftp