linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:13:08 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, htejun@...il.com,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:16:20 -0800
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> +/*
> + * There's one bin_buffer for each open file.
> + *
> + * filp->private_data points to bin_buffer and
> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers points to a the bin_buffer s

what is this trying to say?

> + * sysfs_dirent->s_bin_attr.buffers is protected by sysfs_bin_lock
> + */
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