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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/24] sysfs: In sysfs_add_one fail if the targe directory
 has been removed.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:18:14 +0900
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	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> If a bug in the upper layers results in someone attempting to add
> to a sysfs directory that has already been removed, warn about it
> and fail.
> 
> I don't believe this has ever happened, and it certainly never should
> happen, but be strict to avoid errors creeping in.
> 
> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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tejun