linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories.

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 00:03:11 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs 
	directories.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 23:56, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> Ok, I copied my newly installed system to another disks, to have a
>> root filesytem to trash again by this bug. :)
>>
>> Which of your patches should I try?
>
> James's patch, not mine.

I tried both, both don't fix the issue. With Alan's patch it *seems*
the target device never gets removed, at least I didn't see anything
in the kobject debug logs.

Kay
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