From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:48:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13aiyk7jf.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081014185320.GA24908@us.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:53:20 -0500")
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Again fuse doesn't address the *core* issue (sysfs needing a way to
> create files for multiple devicenames with same name). But I believe
> Benjamin was looking into a minimal patch to fix that. Benjamin,
> have you gotten anywhere with that?
I would love to hear a minimal strategy for that.
The only minimal strategy user space wise is to create multiple superblocks.
Anything else I an think of violates backwards compatibility.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 14:31 Benjamin Thery
2008-09-22 15:34 ` Greg KH
2008-09-22 20:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-09-23 14:24 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-09-23 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-03 10:13 ` Al Viro
2008-10-05 5:32 ` Greg KH
2008-10-07 8:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 10:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] minor sysfs tagged directory fixes Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 10:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Remove lock ordering violation in sysfs_chmod_file Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Fix and sysfs_mv_dir by using lock_rename Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 10:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 21:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Fix and sysfs_mv_dir by using lock_rename Dave Hansen
2008-10-07 21:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Remove lock ordering violation in sysfs_chmod_file Dave Hansen
2008-10-07 22:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 22:27 ` sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet Greg KH
2008-10-07 22:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-07 23:39 ` Greg KH
2008-10-08 0:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-08 0:38 ` Greg KH
2008-10-08 14:18 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-07 23:34 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-14 1:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-14 7:55 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-14 12:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-15 11:04 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-16 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-14 18:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-15 0:48 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-10-15 13:42 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-15 13:54 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-08 0:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-08 1:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 8:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 9:01 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-07 9:12 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 11:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-07 12:19 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 23:17 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-08 0:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-08 0:20 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-08 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
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