linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/15] sysfs lazification final

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Date:	Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:57:49 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] sysfs lazification final

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The sysfs code updates the vfs caches immediately when the sysfs data
> structures change causing a lot of unnecessary complications.  The
> following patchset untangles that beast.  Allowing for simpler
> more straight forward code, the removal of a hack from the vfs
> to support sysfs, and human comprehensible locking on sysfs.
> 
> Most of these patches have already been reviewed and acked from the
> last time I had time to work on sysfs.
> 
> This acks have been folded in and the two small bugs found in the
> previous review have been fixed in the trailing patches (they are
> minor enough nits that even a bisect that happens to land in the
> middle should not see sysfs problems).

Thanks a lot for bringing some sanity to sysfs.  :-)

-- 
tejun
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