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Message-ID: <20070530135432.19422e01@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 13:54:32 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, oneukum@...e.de,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, stern@...land.harvard.edu, maneesh@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] sysfs: implement sysfs flags and SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED

On Tue, 29 May 2007 01:36:26 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> wrote:

> Rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags, pack type into lower eight
> bits and use the rest for flags.  sysfs_type() can used to access the
> type.  This patch also implements SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED which is used to
> improve sanity check in sysfs_deactivate().  The flag will also be
> used to make directory entries reclamiable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/sysfs/dir.c        |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  fs/sysfs/inode.c      |    5 +++--
>  fs/sysfs/mount.c      |    2 +-
>  fs/sysfs/sysfs.h      |    7 ++++++-
>  include/linux/sysfs.h |    4 ++++
>  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

This seems sane, but I'd split this into two patches: One introducing
sysfs_type(), and one adding SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED.
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