Re: [PATCH] devtmpfs: Calling delete_path() only when necessary

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:44:14PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> 2013/12/4 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
> > On 11/16/2013 02:15:23 AM, Axel Lin wrote:
> >>
> >> The deleted variable is always 1 in current code.
> >> Initialize deleted variable to be 0, so delete_path() will be called only
> >> when
> >> necessary.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
> >
> >
> > I'm not seeing this in linux-next, or a reply on the web archive. Assuming
> > nobody's objected to this, you might want to forward it to
> > trivial@kernel.org.
> >
> > That said, you could describe what it _does_ a little more?
> 
> I was expecting Greg to pick up this patch.
> 
> I thought the description is pretty clear.
> What the patch does is changing the init value of deleted variable to 0.
> The intention of this change is to avoid unnecessary delete_path() call.

I agree the logic is a bit odd here, but are you seeing an "unnecessary"
delete_path() call happening?  The code has always been like this from
what I can tell...

thanks,

greg k-h