Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:05:37 -0800 | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications |
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:47:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > I don't remember. I thought there was a proposed patch for this issue > > from Eric, but I don't see it in my queue anywhere. > > That patch was an abortion. Adding a config option for behavior like > this is totally bogus, and the only reason for that config option was > that sysfs did silly things. > > It's only in -next, though, I was assuming that the whole "Kill nlink > counting" commit never makes it to me. Because I won't take it. > > I outlined how the counting could easily be done without actually > having to maintain an explicit count in the sysfs. > > Or we should just keep doing the counting.
Ok, I've now reverted this patch in my tree.
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