Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:58:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support |
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme > of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears > to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories > dynamically coming and going. Which can now occur for directories containing > network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set. > > This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support > that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher > level. So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from > commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone.
Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm? Tejun redid the whole sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't apply anymore :(
thanks,
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