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DateMon, 07 Jan 2008 18:18:21 +0900
FromTejun Heo <>
SubjectRe: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> That said, the mechanism is a bit too fragile.  sysfs currently ensures
>>> that dentry/inode point to the associated sysfs_dirent.  This is mainly
>>> remanent of conversion from previous VFS based implementation.  I think
>>> the right thing to do here is to make sysfs behave like other proper
>>> distributed filesystems using d_revalidate.
>> Huh?  We still need something like sysfs_get_dentry to find the dentries
>> for the rename or move operation.  So we can call d_move.  
> 
> Ah... right.  Thanks.  :-)

On the second thought, can't those too be dealt with d_revalidate?

-- 
tejun


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