From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] sysfs: Gut sysfs_addrm_start and sysfs_addrm_finish Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:08:50 +0900 Message-ID: <4AF4D6B2.6050800@kernel.org> References: <1257249429-12384-11-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise , "Eric W. Biederman" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1257249429-12384-11-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > With lazy inode updates and dentry operations bringing everything > into sync on demand there is no longer any need to immediately > update the vfs or grab i_mutex to protect those updates as we > make changes to sysfs. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Tejun Heo Thanks. -- tejun