Re: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs

Al Viro
2008-01-07T09:23:18Z

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:18:21PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>> That said, the mechanism is a bit too fragile. sysfs currently ensures
> >>> that dentry/inode point to the associated sysfs_dirent. This is mainly
> >>> remanent of conversion from previous VFS based implementation. I think
> >>> the right thing to do here is to make sysfs behave like other proper
> >>> distributed filesystems using d_revalidate.
> >> Huh? We still need something like sysfs_get_dentry to find the dentries
> >> for the rename or move operation. So we can call d_move.
> >
> > Ah... right. Thanks. :-)
>
> On the second thought, can't those too be dealt with d_revalidate?

FVO "dealt with" as pleasant and efficient as using coarse whetstone
to deal with caries.