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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate  between locking links and non-links
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:01:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18warpda9.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100218113912.4a3d36e9@notabene.brown> (Neil Brown's message of "Thu\, 18 Feb 2010 11\:39\:12 +1100")

Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:48 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

>> Got it, I've fixed this by hand.
>> 
>>
>
> Thanks.
> I hadn't sent you a fix myself (As requested) as I got the impression from
> the following discussion that a different approach would be taken.
>
> I'm happy either way though.

I had the same impression.

For simplicity I didn't base my patches on Neils because I would just
have had to undo it when I modified directories and symlinks to not
mess with s_active.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-10  1:09 [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate between locking links and non-links Neil Brown
2010-02-10  1:21 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10  1:56   ` Américo Wang
2010-02-10  3:05     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10  3:14       ` Américo Wang
2010-02-10  3:19         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10  3:33           ` Américo Wang
2010-02-10  2:08 ` Américo Wang
2010-02-10  2:19   ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-10  3:12     ` Américo Wang
2010-02-10  8:03     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-10 10:39       ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-10 18:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-10 23:05           ` Greg KH
2010-02-11  1:31             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11  2:10               ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-11 18:08                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-12  0:59                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-12  1:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-12  1:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-12  2:16                       ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-11 23:13                 ` [PATCH 0/4] Better sysfs lockdep Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:14                   ` [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:20                     ` [PATCH 2/4] sysfs: Only take active references on attributes Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:21                       ` [PATCH 3/4] sysfs: Use one lockdep class per sysfs attribute Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:23                         ` [PATCH 4/4] sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on dynamic attributes Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:42                           ` Greg KH
2010-02-12 12:47                             ` [PATCH] sysfs: Document sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-12 21:41                               ` [PATCH] sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on module dynamic attributes Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-15 10:38                           ` [PATCH 4/4] sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on " Américo Wang
2010-02-15 12:53                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-15 10:35                         ` [PATCH 3/4] sysfs: Use one lockdep class per sysfs attribute Américo Wang
2010-02-15  7:27                       ` [PATCH 2/4] sysfs: Only take active references on attributes Américo Wang
2010-02-15  8:15                         ` Américo Wang
2010-02-15  8:31                           ` Américo Wang
2010-02-15 10:11                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-15  7:03                     ` [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two Américo Wang
2010-02-11 23:18                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:17                 ` [PATCH 0/4] Better sysfs lockdep Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 23:43                   ` Greg KH
2010-02-10 23:54           ` [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate between locking links and non-links Tejun Heo
2010-02-11  0:38             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-10 17:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-10 17:55   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-10 23:06 ` Greg KH
2010-02-11 21:42   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-11 22:32     ` Greg KH
2010-02-11 22:47       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-17 22:38         ` Greg KH
2010-02-18  0:39           ` Neil Brown
2010-02-18  1:01             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-02-18  1:12               ` Greg KH

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