linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] General sysfs enhancements

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Message-ID: <m1mxzdstx2.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:20:41 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.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:  [PATCH 0/6] General sysfs enhancements

Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:16:09PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> This patchset is built on top of 2.6.33-rc3 +
>>   "sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2"
>> 
>> Greg I assume you have that patch somewhere in queue.
>
> It is now applied.
>
>> This patchset contains little cleanups all around sysfs.
>> - Some basic cleanups.
>> - Some sysfs scaling work 
>> - Implementation of sysfs_rename
>
> Care to resend these, as it seems that some needed to be redone.

Here goes. I am finally recovered enough from my cold to find the
time and energy to do this properly.

For now I am dropping the controversial and buggy nlink changing patch
from my patchset, I can come back to that another time.

Eric


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