Re: [PATCH 13/13] sysfs: Factor out sysfs_rename from sysfs_rename_dir and sysfs_move_dir

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>> >> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>> >> 
>> >> These two functions do 90% of the same work and it doesn't significantly
>> >> obfuscate the function to allow both the parent dir and the name to change
>> >> at the same time.  So merge them together to simplify maintenance, and
>> >> increase testing.
>> >> 
>> >> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
>> >
>> > Based on just this patchset it seems sysfs_rename() could be static,
>> > but since it isn't static I assume your later patchset will use it
>> > outside fs/sysfs/dir.c?
>> 
>> To implement sysfs_rename_link, but that is too much to digest/review/push
>> all at once.
>
> Ok, just making sure it'll get used.
>
> To repeat myself,
>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
>
>> I have a snapshot of my development tree up on kernel.org if you are
>> interested.
>
> I think this was an appropriately sized set :)  Might take a look this
> weekend though.

Thanks for the review.

Eric