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

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Message-ID: <m1iqjjbzh8.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 10:17:23 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
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

Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> writes:

> 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,

Perfection is the enemy of the good on that one.  That just convolutes
things unnecessarily, makes the patches harder to review, and requires
additional testing.

I much prefer to work in a tree without rewinding.

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