From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759177AbXGaK2o (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756403AbXGaK2h (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:28:37 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:58559 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755012AbXGaK2g (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:28:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=F5SF/1FGLuJ9KkmeFFiV0lgR9acpuwUcSeviYLLOzf4YP4ARDn6M515Ib1segy8WWs1kNwiegJ+hB+05xZMS/HUywTxo71bl/ssEmYBPBAaid26gf7LuIZCgWrH5hKQHhCDCsXoxMrfJuIj53A8VaOU0w4qOvVgAkUTAVton/gk= Message-ID: <46AF0ECD.9090507@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:28:29 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo 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 References: <11858769083285-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11858769083285-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 " line is missing. I thought git scripts would add that automatically. Sorry about that. -- tejun