From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751960AbXAXTvP (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:51:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbXAXTvO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:51:14 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51174 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402AbXAXTvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:51:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:50:17 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Containers , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Implement shadow directory support for device classes. Message-ID: <20070124195017.GA27315@suse.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:37:19PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Modify the device class code so that normal manipulations work > in the presence of shadow directories. Some of the shadow directory > support still needs to be implemented in the implementation of the > class but these modifications are sufficient to make that simple. This is a nice idea, but I'm working to get rid of 'struct class_device' from the tree. Network devices have already been converted, the patch is in the -mm tree, I'm working on some firewire fixes before pushing it to Linus. So, I think you want to do this work for 'struct device' too, as that is what will be the real user of this code. thanks, greg k-h