From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754175Ab0CZD3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:29:06 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:38343 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754144Ab0CZD3B (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:29:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:28:52 +1100 From: Neil Brown To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs. Message-ID: <20100326142852.1d4f7b3b@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: References: <20100324031829.2136.66489.stgit@notabene.brown> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0700 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > NeilBrown writes: > > > This series tidies up the refcount of sysfs_dirents in sysfs, > > using kref where appropriate and a new karef for s_active. > > This achieves significant code simplification, especially the first > > patch. > > > > This is in part inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/336224/ :-) > > Neil I would appreciate if you would cc' Tejun and myself on > these kind of patches as we wrote the code and the best canidates > to review it. > Yes, you are right of course. I just pulled names out of MAINTAINERS figuring the maintainer would know what best to do with the patch. NeilBrown