Re: [PATCH 0/15] sysfs lazification final

Tejun Heo
2009-11-09T03:58:05Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The sysfs code updates the vfs caches immediately when the sysfs data
> structures change causing a lot of unnecessary complications. The
> following patchset untangles that beast. Allowing for simpler
> more straight forward code, the removal of a hack from the vfs
> to support sysfs, and human comprehensible locking on sysfs.
>
> Most of these patches have already been reviewed and acked from the
> last time I had time to work on sysfs.
>
> This acks have been folded in and the two small bugs found in the
> previous review have been fixed in the trailing patches (they are
> minor enough nits that even a bisect that happens to land in the
> middle should not see sysfs problems).

Thanks a lot for bringing some sanity to sysfs. :-)

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tejun