linux-kernel - Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0707101042030.2595-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:42:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:

> >>> A general immediate disconnect of the buffers (which will be handled in
> >>> a second pass) would be great, but doesn't sound easy.
> >> I haven't thought too hard about actual implementation but it's pretty
> >> specific case.  If doing things in generic manner is difficult, there
> >> are plenty of shortcuts to choose from, I think.
> > 
> > The "second pass" approach where the store method calls the sysfs core
> > or sets a flag or whatever sounds doable, but I'm not sure how general
> > we can get. Maybe for all store methods that just trigger an action.
> 
> Hmm... I'll give it a shot in a few days.

How would that differ from the callback technique we use now?

Alan Stern

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