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DateMon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:56 +0000
FromAl Viro <>
SubjectRe: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:18:21PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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?

FVO "dealt with" as pleasant and efficient as using coarse whetstone
to deal with caries.


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