linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwZG+wWwRX-FOgQHwt3eA76qgKb0W0sRGSd8Ug=szr20A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:56:49 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:22 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> This fixes it by instead doing an explicit kobject_del() when
> the glue dir is empty, by keeping track of the number of
> child devices of the gluedir.

Ugh. I was hoping that you'd just do the "only check duplicate names
if actually in use" instead.

This patch seems to make patch 1/2 pointless. No?

                  Linus