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Date:	Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:49:08 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	garyhade@...ibm.com, pbadari@...ibm.com,
	"y-goto\@jp.fujitsu.com" <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: sysfs_create_link_nowarn still remains (Was Re: mmotm 2009-06-03-16-33 uploaded

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> writes:

2> On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:33:52 -0700
> akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
>
>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-06-03-16-33 has been uploaded to
>> 
>>    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
>> 
>> and will soon be available at
>> 
>>    git://git.zen-sources.org/zen/mmotm.git
>> 
> It seems sysfs_create_link_nowarn() is removed in linux-next.patch but
> driver/base/node.c still includes it.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c04fc586c1a480ba198f03ae7b6cbd7b57380b91
>
> How should we fix it ? Folllowing is a quick hack for compile but ...
> should be clarified by memory hotplug guys.

Greg has already dropped the patches so the should not appear it the next linux-next.
I think your patch is what we want I haven't had a chance to wrap my head around
all of that yet.

Eric


> ==
>
> sysfs_create_link_nowarn() is obsolete.
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
> Index: mmotm-2.6.30-Jun3/drivers/base/node.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm-2.6.30-Jun3.orig/drivers/base/node.c
> +++ mmotm-2.6.30-Jun3/drivers/base/node.c
> @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct 
>  			continue;
>  		if (page_nid != nid)
>  			continue;
> -		return sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&node_devices[nid].sysdev.kobj,
> +		return sysfs_create_link(&node_devices[nid].sysdev.kobj,
>  					&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj,
>  					kobject_name(&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj));
>  	}
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