Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:43 +0200 | From | Peter Oberparleiter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix hardlink count on device_move |
| |
Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:56:15PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote: >> From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> >> Update directory hardlink count when moving kobjects to a new parent. >> Fixes the following problem which occurs when several devices are >> moved to the same parent and then unregistered: >> >>> ls -laF /sys/devices/css0/defunct/ >>> total 0 >>> drwxr-xr-x 4294967295 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ./ >>> drwxr-xr-x 114 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ../ >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:01 power/ >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2009-07-14 17:01 uevent >> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Thanks for the patch. > > Is this something new in 2.6.31-rc, or does it also show up in .30 > and/or .27?
This is an old problem that existed since the introduction of sysfs_move_dir() in 2.6.20.
| |