linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:37:13 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs
 earlier

On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 17:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > 
> > For devices with a class, we create a "glue" directory between
> > the parent device and the new device with the class name.
> > 
> > This directory is never "explicitely" removed when empty however,
> 
> explicitly
> 
> Is the mis-spelling why you had the quotes? I do find that spelling in
> the kernel, but not in drivers/base/.

No idea :-) Just my poor english, I'm not sure why I put quotes, I
think I meant *explictly* as enphasis, not sure.

> > 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.
> 
> Ack. This looks good to me.
> 
> I didn't see your 1/2 - you should probably re-send that one too so
> that Greg doesn't have to fish for it. But I'll Ack that one too in
> this same email regardless.

OK, I didn't re-send it. Greg just nak'ed it though :-)

Cheers,
Ben.