From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756397AbZEUBta (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 21:49:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754723AbZEUBtV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 21:49:21 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:36238 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753805AbZEUBtU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 21:49:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4A14B313.8030700@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:49:07 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Thery , Daniel Lezcano , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link References: <1242865694-2100-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <1242865694-2100-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 21 May 2009 01:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false > warnings about invalid sysfs operations, so implement a helper > function for this common sysfs idiom. > > This is a stripped down version of an earlier patch that > also added sysfs_delete_link. > > Cc: Benjamin Thery > Cc: Daniel Lezcano > Cc: Tejun Heo > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman I think this has been brought up before but can you please use --no-chain-reply-to? It's painful to follow the deep nesting. Thanks. -- tejun