linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

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Message-ID: <46AF0ECD.9090507@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:28:29 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, satyam@...radead.org,
	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

Tejun Heo 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.

"From Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>" line is missing.  I
thought git scripts would add that automatically.  Sorry about that.

-- 
tejun
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