linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs.

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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:28:52 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs.

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0700
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de> writes:
> 
> > This series tidies up the refcount of sysfs_dirents in sysfs,
> > using kref where appropriate and a new karef for s_active.
> > This achieves significant code simplification, especially the first
> > patch.
> >
> > This is in part inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/336224/ :-)
> 
> Neil I would appreciate if you would cc' Tejun and myself on
> these kind of patches as we wrote the code and the best canidates
> to review it.
>

Yes, you are right of course.
I just pulled names out of MAINTAINERS figuring the maintainer would know
what best to do with the patch.

NeilBrown
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