From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/20] sysfs: Simplify sysfs_chmod_file semantics Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:42:58 +0900 Message-ID: <4A14F7F2.8010502@kernel.org> References: <1242865694-2100-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-2-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-4-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-5-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-6-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-7-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39498 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbZEUGnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 02:43:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1242865694-2100-7-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > Currently every caller of sysfs_chmod_file happens at either > file creation time to set a non-default mode or in response > to a specific user requested space change in policy. Making > timestamps of when the chmod happens and notification of > a file changing mode uninteresting. > > Remove the unnecessary time stamp and filesystem change > notification, and removes the last of the explicit inotify > and donitfy support from sysfs. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman If Greg is okay with this, Acked-by: Tejun Heo -- tejun