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

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:12:49 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate  between locking links and
 non-links

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:01:50PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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.

Argh, sorry about that, I'll go drop Neil's patch and queue up Eric's
instead.  I was working my way through the patch queue and hadn't gotten
to Eric's just yet...

thanks,

greg k-h
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