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Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:02:53 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support untagged symlinks to tagged directories.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:08:27PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:34:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:06:01 -0700
> >> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> > > Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:
> >> > > 
> >> > > > With this patch, how does the existing code fail as the drivers aren't
> >> > > > fixed up?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I like this change, just worried it will cause problems if it gets into
> >> > > > .35, without your RFC patch.  Will it?
> >> > > 
> >> 
> >> geethanks!
> >> 
> >> On the FC6 test box I have no networking.
> >
> > Ick.
> >
> > Eric, any ideas?
> 
> Yes.  I just found some time to test my fixes and things are looking
> good.  It really is just two one line fixes.
> 
> On the other part of this debug with SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled it
> with mac80211_hwsim drivers works fine no problems.  I expect the
> bnep driver will also be fine.
> 
> What is affecting those two is arguably a bug in the non-deprecated
> sysfs mode.
> 
> Regardless here are my fixes.  I have split this into a patch for
> the warning and a patch for sysfs_delete_link.  Because at least
> the sysfs_delete_link code needs to make into 2.6.35 if we can.

Do these patches obsolete the existing one I have in my tree entitled:
	Subject: sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove
or are they on top of that one?

thanks,

greg k-h
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