On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:23:17PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > We do not check whether we already registered a CUSE device with a given > name so we might end up with two devices with the same name. Sysfs will > then complain as it cannot create suitable directories. > > This patch makes the init-command fail if there is already a device with > the given name. To avoid race-conditions, we protect the whole > registration with a mutex now. > > Following the sysfs warnings when registering two devices with the same > name: ... > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> But it probably would be better to separate out mutex conversion as a separate patch. Thanks! -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
