linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: Remove all sysfs entries

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:54:13 -0500
From:	Mitch Harder <mitch.harder@...ayonlinux.org>
To:	Hugo Mills <hugo@...fax.org.uk>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kreijack@...ero.it
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: Remove all sysfs entries

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@...fax.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:40:31AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Seems that currently none of the sysfs are created any more, so just
>> remove sysfs support entirely.
>>
>> Fixes compiling warnings in 3.0rc3
>
>   I would actually like to retain sysfs support -- the current
> entries may not be used (or useful, or in the right place, or even
> visible these days), but there's plenty of things that could and
> should go in sysfs from btrfs.
>
>   So, please do remove the unwanted/unused file entries, but could
> you leave the sysfs file itself, and the (limited) bits that create
> the btrfs subdir? Otherwise, I'm going to be putting it all back in
> this weekend when I get the time to revisit Goffredo's old sysfs
> patch...
>
>   Thanks,
>   Hugo.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
>>
>> --
>
>   (I think this should be three - signs, not two: my signature-
> cropping script removed the whole patch)
>

I'm not sure if Goffredo is following this thread, but I think you'll
need a missing patch to provide a fs/btrfs/sysfs.h file in order to
use his sysfs patch.
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