From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753944Ab0CZDK2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:10:28 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:57012 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753300Ab0CZDK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:10:27 -0400 To: NeilBrown Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs. References: <20100324031829.2136.66489.stgit@notabene.brown> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20100324031829.2136.66489.stgit@notabene.brown> (NeilBrown's message of "Wed\, 24 Mar 2010 14\:20\:08 +1100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: neilb@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, tj@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org NeilBrown writes: > This series tidies up the refcount of sysfs_dirents in sysfs, > using kref where appropriate and a new karef for s_active. > This achieves significant code simplification, especially the first > patch. > > This is in part inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/336224/ :-) Neil I would appreciate if you would cc' Tejun and myself on these kind of patches as we wrote the code and the best canidates to review it. Thanks, Eric