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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr
From(Eric W. Biederman)
DateFri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:11 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>>
>> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the
>> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update
>> the attributes of a vfs inode.
>>
>> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from
>> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent.
>>
>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
>
> Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree
> recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore.

It looks like the issue is the a trivial context conflict with
sysfs-mark-a-locally-only-used-function-static.patch

Which marks one of those new functions as static.

Here come the patches 6-15 rebased on top of that.

Eric


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