From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, gregkh@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, satyam@infradead.org,
cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:28:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AF0ECD.9090507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11858769083285-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo 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.
"From Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>" line is missing. I
thought git scripts would add that automatically. Sorry about that.
--
tejun
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 10:28 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-31 10:28 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-07-31 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support Satyam Sharma
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