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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] Free sysfs_dirent on file removal
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:40:31PM -0500, Maneesh Soni wrote:
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> o The following patch implements the code to free up the sysfs_dirents upon
> directory or file removal. It uses the sysfs_dirent based tree in order
> to remove the directory contents before removing the directory itself.
> It could do this without taking dcache_lock in sysfs_remove_dir() as
> it doesnot use dentry based tree.

ACK, but some of that (freeing sysfs_dirent upon removal, no smarts, just
enough to plug the leak) belongs in the first chunk.

Note that there we shouldn't care about refcounts - that stuff belongs here.
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