Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:04:44 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for enlightening me.  Probably what can be done is blocking
> regular file sysfs nodes automatically and make it optional (optionally
> enable or disable) for bin attrs.

Perhaps all files should block by default, but have a knob to disable
blocking for special cases (or an attribute flag like ATTR_NOFREEZE?)

> >>> Using a freezable workqueue for the callbacks would also localize the 
> >>> suspend handling.
> >> But the freezable workqueue thing isn't really necessary if any of the
> >> discussed solutions is implemented, right?
> > 
> > It isn't necessary if the callbacks aren't needed (i.e., if we give
> > methods a way to unregister their attribute directly).  But if we do
> > keep the callbacks, then for safety's sake their workqueue should be
> > freezable.

I agree.

> I see.  Let's see how the direct suicide thing works out.

If it can be done nicely, I'd prefer it over the workqueue solution -
but not if we end up with hard-to-understand code.