Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

Alan Stern
2007-07-10T14:43:03Z

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:

> >>> A general immediate disconnect of the buffers (which will be handled in
> >>> a second pass) would be great, but doesn't sound easy.
> >> I haven't thought too hard about actual implementation but it's pretty
> >> specific case. If doing things in generic manner is difficult, there
> >> are plenty of shortcuts to choose from, I think.
> >
> > The "second pass" approach where the store method calls the sysfs core
> > or sets a flag or whatever sounds doable, but I'm not sure how general
> > we can get. Maybe for all store methods that just trigger an action.
>
> Hmm... I'll give it a shot in a few days.

How would that differ from the callback technique we use now?

Alan Stern