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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, htejun@gmail.com,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:13:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226131308.41ffbd31.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18wnvq6cr.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:16:20 -0800
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> +/*
> + * There's one bin_buffer for each open file.
> + *
> + * filp->private_data points to bin_buffer and
> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers points to a the bin_buffer s

what is this trying to say?

> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers is protected by sysfs_bin_lock
> + */

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-26 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25  8:16 [PATCH] sysfs: Don't block indefinitely for unmapped files Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-25  9:16 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-26 21:13 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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