linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/24] sysfs: Make sysfs_rename

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Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 18:16:36 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/24] sysfs: Make sysfs_rename_link atomic

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Use the existing sysfs_rename to make sysfs_rename_link an atomic
> operation that does less work.  While I am at add additional sanity
> checking to ensure it is a symlink I am renaming.
> 
> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

It would be really nice to merge or group this together with the first
three patches.  Other than that,

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

-- 
tejun
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