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Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs.

NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de> 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
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