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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in sysfs behavior?
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:34:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107223411.GA2029@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0401071712550.1589-100000@ida.rowland.org>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:24:08PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> The real problem was finding a way to indicate that the file was
> disconnected from its kobject.  I did that by setting
> dentry->d_inode->i_mode to 0.  (I didn't want to erase dentry->d_fsdata
> for fear that it might be needed somewhere else.)  That's definitely not a
> good way; it was intended only for my proof-of-principle.  No doubt
> someone else could do a much better job.

Because this is the hardest part, it's easier just to have the behavior
we currently have :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 15:48 Alan Stern
2004-01-07 17:27 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 21:50   ` Alan Stern
2004-01-07 21:56     ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 22:24       ` Alan Stern
2004-01-07 22:34         ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-08 10:32   ` Maneesh Soni
2004-01-08 20:19     ` Greg KH
2004-01-09  4:56       ` Maneesh Soni

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