From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.3-mm2] unregister path on devfs_remove
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:08:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223120804.57f54623.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223192807.GA4359@localhost.localdomain>
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> The patch implements cleanup of device path on devfs_remove. It does not
> use extra counters as was suggested once - rather it simply removes all
> empty directories. Manually created directories (and connecting paths)
> are preserved and cleaned up on rmdir/unlink.
>
> The creation/removing of path is not atomic; it will be addressed later.
> It apparently requires replacing per-directory locks with global one;
> using extra counters does not actually helps here.
>
> This patch will cause devfs_remove on directories emit warning in most
> cases. Removing connecting directories makes no sense with this change
> so if it is agreed upon I send patch that removes all
> devfs_remove("directory") from kernel.
Well could you please either send that patch or remove the warning? I get
way too much mail when -mm kernels start spitting new warnings.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 20:08 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-23 19:28 Andrey Borzenkov
2004-02-23 20:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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