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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:35:36 +0900
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Ugly but given the current interface limitations...
> 
> Yep.  I have been thinking it might be nice to look at what you did with magic symlink
> handling.  Otherwise we either need to convert everything from sysfs_remove_link to
> sysfs_delete_link if we don't want to play whack a mole.

I think the current one should do for now.  Changing to managed links
requires pervasive changes to locking and stuff.  I'll clean them up
when I refresh the patches I posted a while back.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun