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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:13:08 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:16:20 -0800
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> +/*
> + * There's one bin_buffer for each open file.
> + *
> + * filp->private_data points to bin_buffer and
> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers points to a the bin_buffer s

what is this trying to say?

> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers is protected by sysfs_bin_lock
> + */