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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:58:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412225843.GA3713@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1wt0p78k5.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme
> of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears
> to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories
> dynamically coming and going.  Which can now occur for directories containing
> network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set.
> 
> This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support
> that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher
> level.  So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from
> commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone.

Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm?  Tejun redid the whole
sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't
apply anymore :(

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06 16:43 [PATCH 0/5] On to usable sysfs " Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.c Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 16:48   ` [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 16:50     ` [PATCH 3/5] sysfs: Implement sysfs manged " Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 16:51       ` [PATCH 4/5] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 17:14         ` [PATCH 5/5] driver core: Implement shadow directory support for device classes Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-12 22:58     ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-04-13 17:23       ` [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support Eric W. Biederman

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