From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090AbXDMQlx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:41:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754091AbXDMQlx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:41:53 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56989 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754090AbXDMQlw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:41:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:58:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Containers Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support Message-ID: <20070412225843.GA3713@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman 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. Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm? Tejun redid the whole sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't apply anymore :( thanks, greg k-h