linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories.

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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 00:44:26 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>,
	stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs  directories.

Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> writes:

>> Let's make the plan to investigate these, and see how hard it would be
>> to actually remove these with the current device/sysfs infrastructure.
>> 
>> Fixing the users and adding back auto-deletion are the only two real options.
>
> Seems, we should remove non-directory files, which in most cases belong
> to the kobject itself, but the user's cleanup logic does not cover the
> removal of the created files.
>
> But I think, we should still warn, if we find a sub-directory inside a
> directory we are going to remove.

So far complaining about deleting non-empty directories is finding
real bugs.  It does not appear that too many users that delete
non-empty directories.

My plan moving forward is to see what has goofed and how hard it is to
change the callers to clean up after themselves.  If it is not a pain
to fix the callers who forget to delete their attributes that looks
like the right way forward.

It is certainly the principle of least surprise.

Eric
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