Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:36:29 +0900, > Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, all. >> >> This is subset of Eric W. Biederman's "Sysfs cleanups & tagged >> directory support" patchset[1] with the following modifications. >> >> * fix-i_mutex-locking-in-sysfs_get_dentry patch is added at the top >> and #14-Don_t-use-lookup_one_len_kern and >> #15-vfs-Remove-lookup_one_len_kern are dropped. This is because #14 >> contained had a bug where it might created dentry/inode for an >> already deleted sysfs_dirent. I think it's benefitial to keep >> single lookup path. >> >> * Rewrote simplify-sysfs_get_dentry patch and >> #08-Implement-__sysfs_get_dentry, >> #09-Move-sysfs_get_dentry-below-__sysfs_get_dentry and >> #10-Rewrite-sysfs_get_dentry-in-terms-of-__sysfs_get_dentry are >> omitted as __sysfs_get_dentry() isn't used by anyone. >> >> * #16, 19-25 are omitted as it isn't clear yet how the tagged entry >> support will end up. >> >> * readdir simplification fixed. >> >> * sysfs_mutex double locking fixed. >> >> The patchset is on top of the current -gregkh. > > Survives some casual testing (including moving devices). Patches look > sane to me at a cursory glance as well (sorry, don't have much time at > the moment).
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