* Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support
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@ 2007-07-31 10:28 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-31 12:47 ` Satyam Sharma
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From: Tejun Heo @ 2007-07-31 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tejun Heo; +Cc: ebiederm, gregkh, linux-kernel, satyam, cornelia.huck, stern
Tejun Heo 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.
"From Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>" line is missing. I
thought git scripts would add that automatically. Sorry about that.
--
tejun
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2007-07-31 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support Tejun Heo
@ 2007-07-31 12:47 ` Satyam Sharma
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From: Satyam Sharma @ 2007-07-31 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tejun Heo; +Cc: ebiederm, gregkh, linux-kernel, cornelia.huck, stern
Hi Tejun,
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo 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.
>
> "From Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>" line is missing. I
> thought git scripts would add that automatically. Sorry about that.
I couldn't find this patch in the patchset you just posted ...
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