linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

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Message-ID: <20070412225843.GA3713@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:58:43 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory
	support

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme
> of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears
> to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories
> dynamically coming and going.  Which can now occur for directories containing
> network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set.
> 
> This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support
> that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher
> level.  So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from
> commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone.

Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm?  Tejun redid the whole
sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't
apply anymore :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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