linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate between locking links and non-links

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:01:50 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate  between locking links and non-links

Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:48 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

>> Got it, I've fixed this by hand.
>> 
>>
>
> Thanks.
> I hadn't sent you a fix myself (As requested) as I got the impression from
> the following discussion that a different approach would be taken.
>
> I'm happy either way though.

I had the same impression.

For simplicity I didn't base my patches on Neils because I would just
have had to undo it when I modified directories and symlinks to not
mess with s_active.

Eric
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