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From: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, gregkh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:17:51 +0530 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707311815400.26032@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AF0ECD.9090507@gmail.com>

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 ...

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <11858769083285-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com>
2007-07-31 10:28 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-31 12:47   ` Satyam Sharma [this message]

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